Abstract

review arq. vol 21. no 3. 2017 277 https://doi. org/10.1017/S1359135517000434 Published online by Cambridge University Press arq. vol 21. no 3. 2017 review 278 pieces such as ‘Implicit Meanings’, which he regarded his first publication about how buildings frame social rituals drawing examples from anthropology, 8 and can also be seen from his third essay of the four-part series ‘In Search of Authenticity’9 in which the sustaining ritual invoked. Closely related to organic modernism, whose architects and buildings Blundell Jones had worked on in terms of ‘thicker’interpretations, the issue of architecture and ritual thrived for him around discussions about site-specificity, spatial progression and organisation, craftsmanship, and the freedom and repetition of bodily movement in space. It had been present in ideas of the vernacular, which he believed had been ousted by the academic tradition. Thus,‘to look at the …

Date

2017

Authors

Xiang Ren

Journal

arq: Architectural Research Quarterly

Volume

21

Issue

3

Pages

277-280

Publisher

Cambridge University Press