Architecture and ritual : Peter Blundell Jones / how buildings shape society.

By:

Jones, Peter Blundell

Language: English Publication details: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. London :Description: xvii, 371 pISBN:

9781472577481

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DDC classification:

720.103 JON-A

Summary: Architecture and Ritual explores how the rituals of life--from the grand and formal to the mundane and everyday--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. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. From the Paris Opera to modernist hospitals, and from seventeenth-century Chinese yamen to Sioux lamentation ceremonies, each case study enables a distinct theme to emerge, showing how social conventions relate to spatial practice.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-2	Non Fiction	720.103 JON-A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Rec. by Anand Wadwekar		010675

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Architecture and Ritual explores how the rituals of life--from the grand and formal to the mundane and everyday--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. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. From the Paris Opera to modernist hospitals, and from seventeenth-century Chinese yamen to Sioux lamentation ceremonies, each case study enables a distinct theme to emerge, showing how social conventions relate to spatial practice.

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