Lucien Kroll: the door
3.3Lucien Kroll: The Door1 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones The entrance is the most sensitive place in a dwelling: it gives some idea of the identity of the inhabitants and…
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3.3Lucien Kroll: The Door1 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones The entrance is the most sensitive place in a dwelling: it gives some idea of the identity of the inhabitants and…
3.2Rievaulx and the Order of St Benedict Translated by Abbot Parry Figure 3.2.1 Basic layout of Rievaulx Abbey: A: church; B: cloister; C: refectory; D: chapter house Source: After a…
Figure 3.0.1 Spirit path leading to the East Royal Tombs, Qing dynasty, discussed in Chapter 3.5. This view looks back from the second paifang or ceremonial gateway towards the main…
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…
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…
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….
Figure 2.0.1 Path made by human footfall and photographed in autumn, Bamford, Derbyshire Source: Photograph by Peter Blundell Jones
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,…
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…