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Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious.Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital.In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.
Hardcover:
9781472577474 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $128.00
Paperback:
9781472577481 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit.
Hardcover:
9783936681307 | Axel Menges, March 16, 2013, cover price $109.00
Hardcover:
9780750663748, titled "Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990: Divergence Within the Post-war Consensus" | Routledge, August 21, 2007, cover price $85.00
Hardcover:
9783932565021 | Axel Menges, September 15, 2007, cover price $89.00
Product Description: A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. ove all, he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape, and it is such contributions that have made him recognized as Sweden's leading architect of the twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9780714839769 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, September 1, 2005, cover price $75.00
Paperback:
9780714863153 | Reprint edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, January 23, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism.
Product Description: Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it...read more
Hardcover:
9780415317450 | Routledge, April 11, 2005, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it.
Paperback:
9780415317467 | Routledge, May 2, 2005, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it.
Miscellaneous:
9780203022863 | Routledge, February 3, 2005, cover price $59.95 | also contains Architecture And Participation
Product Description: Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780750638050 | Architectural Pr, September 24, 2002, cover price $78.95 | About this edition: Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies.
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Hardcover:
9783930698912 | Axel Menges, October 1, 1999, cover price $89.00
Product Description: Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920s and an important exponent of organic architecture. Scharoun first achieved international recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927...read more
Hardcover:
9780714828770 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $75.00
Paperback:
9780714836287 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, April 2, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920s and an important exponent of organic architecture.
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