Peter Blundell Jones (4 January 1949 – 19 August 2016) was a British architect and architectural historian.

Peter Blundell Jones (4 January 1949 – 19 August 2016) was a British architect and architectural historian. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School, and held academic positions at the University of Cambridge and London South Bank University. He was a professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield from 1994 until his death in 2016.

Peter Blundell Jones celebrated the depth and complexity of the modern . They provide evidence for the suppressed traditions and diversity in the modern movement.

Peter Blundell Jones celebrated the depth and complexity of the modern movement. Photograph: Jan Woudstra/University of Sheffield. At the AA Peter also encountered a wide range of German modernism. While his publications provided a new perspective on alternative strands of modernism, he became conscious that they only adjusted the existing canon of modernist heroes. To provide a different reading and to celebrate the depth and complexity of the modern movement, Peter later settled on a case-study approach, focusing on individual buildings.

Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies

Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies. Each case is analysed in detail then used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Case studies are shown to be the most effective way to explore this diversity and to get closer to the buildings discussed.

Blundell Jones, Peter, Hans Scharoun: A Monograph, (London: Gordon . After he left the AA in 1972, he was commissioned to write the book on Scharoun

Blundell Jones, Peter, Hans Scharoun: A Monograph, (London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1978). Blundell Jones, Peter, Hans Scharoun, (London : Phaidon, 1995). Blundell Jones, Peter, Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, (Oxford: Architectural, 2002) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 205 libraries. Blundell Jones, Peter, Marl Revisit, in Marl. After he left the AA in 1972, he was commissioned to write the book on Scharoun.

Peter Blundell-Jones, architect and teacher, provides a furhter exposition of his critical monograph on Germany's great expressionist architect.

Peter Blundell Jones. Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920s and an important exponent of organic architecture. Scharoun first achieved international recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927. His experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the war and are exemplified in the highly acclaimed Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin (1956-63).

Peter Blundell Jones, professor of architecture at the University of sheffield, has long been concerned with the organic movement in architecture and has written extensively about it, including a substantial work on Hans Scharoun

Peter Blundell Jones, professor of architecture at the University of sheffield, has long been concerned with the organic movement in architecture and has written extensively about it, including a substantial work on Hans Scharoun. The present book is not just a biography of Haring, but an unusually detailed analysis of his architectural work, including many unbuilt projects which have never before been published. ISBN 10: 0714836281 ISBN 13: 9780714836287. Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1997.

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