Book review: Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones

Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape

Timothy Brittain-Catlin reviews an accessible and lively compendium that represents a wonderful tribute to a much-missed mentor

This is an important book that celebrates and continues the work of Peter Blundell Jones, who died in 2016, one of the most important architectural teachers, historians and writers of his generation. 

His monographs on the German expressionist architects Hugo Häring, Hans Scharoun and Peter Hübner, and on Erik Gunnar Asplund, are still acknowledged as authoritative accounts of their work; as a regular guest editor and contributor to the Architectural Review during the peak of that magazine’s international influence from the 1990s, he was also the person who set the agenda for much of what was to come in the world of organic and environmentally aware architecture.

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