Hermann Muthesius: Wie baue ich mein Haus
1.4Hermann Muthesius: Wie Baue Ich Mein Haus Translated by Peter Blundell Jones Hermann Muthesius is best known as the author of Das englische Haus, a three-volume study published after his…
Charles Garnier: Le théâtre, Chapter 4, Staircases
1.3Charles Garnier: Le Théâtre, Chapter 4, Staircases1 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones Figure 1.3.1 Paris Opera, principal façade Source: Photograph by Peter Blundell Jones Figure 1.3.2 Paris Opera, plan at…
From foot to vehicle
2.5From Foot to Vehicle Peter Blundell Jones Walking, throughout our history, has been the way to couple the short distances traversed daily at home with longer ones to other places….
2 Movement as experienced by the individual
Figure 2.0.1 Path made by human footfall and photographed in autumn, Bamford, Derbyshire Source: Photograph by Peter Blundell Jones
The primacy of bodily experience
2.1The Primacy of Bodily Experience Peter Blundell Jones As Alva Noë has amusingly observed, science-fiction accounts about brains in jars soon have to start replacing parts of the lost body,…
Architectural promenades through the Villa Savoye
1.5Architectural Promenades through the Villa Savoye Flora Samuel The ‘promenade architecturale’ is a key term in the language of modern architecture. It appears for the first time in Le Corbusier’s…