Peter Blundell Jones

Peter Blundell Jones (born January 4, 1949 near Exeter , † August 19, 2016 ) was a British architectural historian.

Life

Peter Blundell Jones was the second of three children of orthopedic surgeon Geoffrey Jones and his wife Avis (nee Dyer). He attended a preparatory school in Exeter and a school in Tiverton . In 1966 he began to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London . In 1972 he finished his studies. Jones now devoted himself to his book about Hans Scharoun . He then designed the Round House in Stoke Canon and taught for a year at the North London Polytechnic and the University of Bath . In addition to teaching, he wrote for the Architectural Review and the Architectural Journal . From 1979 to 1983 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Cambridge . From 1988 he worked at the South London Polytechnic , first as principal lecturer and then as reader . In 1994 he was appointed professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield .

Jones was married twice. His first marriage, from 1979 until the death of his wife in 1989, had two children. In 1994 he married again. From this marriage a daughter was born. Jones died of cancer in August 2016.

Publications (selection)

• Hans Scharoun (1978)
• Modern Architecture Through Case Studies , Volume 1 (2002)
• with Doina Petrescu , Jeremy Till: Architecture and Participation (2005)
• with Eamonn Canniffe: Modern Architecture Through Case Studies , Volume 2 (2007)
• with Mark Meagher: Architecture and Movement: The Dynamic Experience of Buildings and Landscapes (2015)
• Architecture and Ritual (2016)

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Blundell Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Blundell Jones obituary , September 15, 2016, The Guardian