Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Peter Blundell Jones

PART 1 Moving through buildings and landscapes: the designer’s perspective

1.0 Introduction to Part 1

Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher

1.1 The classical authors

Peter Blundell Jones

1.2 Viollet-le-duc on the medieval cloister

Translated by Peter Blundell Jones

1.3 Charles Garnier: Le théâtre, Chapter 4, Staircases

Translated by Peter Blundell Jones

1.4 Hermann Muthesius: Wie baue ich mein Haus

Translated by Peter Blundell Jones

1.5 Architectural promenades through the Villa Savoye

Flora Samuel

1.6 Gunnar Asplund: ‘pictures with marginal notes from the Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition’, 1923

Translated by Eva Berndtsson and Peter Blundell Jones

1.7 Frank Lloyd Wright’s use of movement

John Sergeant

1.8 Hans Scharoun and movement: the Kassel Project 1952

Translated by Peter Blundell Jones

1.9 Move to the light

David Lea

1.10 Odysseus and Kalypso – at home

Peter Wilson

PART 2 Movement as experienced by the individual

2.0 Introduction to Part 2

Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher

2.1 The primacy of bodily experience

Peter Blundell Jones

2.2 From health to pleasure: the landscape of walking

Jan Woudstra

2.3 Architecture of walking

Doina Petrescu

2.4 Soundscape and movement

Jian Kang

2.5 From foot to vehicle

Peter Blundell Jones

2.6 Moving round the ring road

Stephen Walker

2.7 The geometry of moving bodies

Alan Lewis

2.8 Pedestrians and traffic

Ben Hamilton-Baillie

PART 3 Movement as social and shared

3.0 Introduction to Part 3

Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher

3.1 Space as a product of bodily movement: centre, path and threshold

Peter Blundell Jones

3.2 Rievaulx and the Order of St Benedict

Translated by Abbot Parry

3.3 Lucien Kroll: the door

Translated by Peter Blundell Jones

3.4 The Japanese tea ceremony

Lucy Block

3.5 The East Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty

Peter Blundell Jones, Jianghua Wang and Bing Jiang

3.6 The automated gardens of Lunéville: from the self-moving landscape to the circuit walk

Renata Tyszczuk

3.7 Lauriston School

Ann Griffin

PART 4 The representation of movement

4.0 Introduction to Part 4

Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher

4.1 House construction among the Dong

Derong Kong

4.2 Movement and the use of the sequential section by Enric Miralles and Mathur and da Cunha

Kamni Gill

4.3 From models to movement? Reflections on some recent projects by Herzog & de Meuron

Cornelia Tapparelli

4.4 Filmic Space: an encounter with Patrick Keiller

Peter Blundell Jones

4.5 Diasporic experience and the need for topological methods

Nishat Awan

4.6 Open design: thoughts on software and the representation of movement

Mark Meagher

4.7 The matter of movement

Phil Ayres

Conclusion

Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher

Bibliography

Index