Architecture and Ritual: How Buildings Shape Society

by Peter Blundell Jones

Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life 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.

Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472577477
• ISBN13: 9781472577474
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.7"