TY  - GEN
AU  - Jones, Peter Blundell 
TI  - Architecture and ritual: how buildings shape society
SN  - 9781472577481
U1  - 720.103 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - UD
N2  - 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.
ER  -