Peter Blundell Jones
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Peter Blundell Jones AA Dipl MA (Cantab) is a British architect, historian, academic and critic. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association school, London
London
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 and has held academic positions at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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 and London South Bank University
London South Bank University
London South Bank University is a university in south London. With over 25,000 students and 1,700 staff, it is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name...

. He has been Professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
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 since 1994.

He is a prolific author on architectural history and theory. As well as being a regular contributor to the Architectural Review
Architectural Review
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, he has written or collaborated on monographs of the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund, Hans Scharoun
Hans Scharoun
Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall and the in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of Organic architecture....

, Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.-Early life:...

, Hugo Häring
Hugo Häring
Hugo Häring was a German architect and architectural writer best known for his writings on "organic architecture", and as a figure in architectural debates about functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s, though he had an important role as an expressionist architect.A student of the great Theodor...

 and Günter Behnisch
Günter Behnisch
Günter Behnisch was a German architect, born in Lockwitz, near Dresden. He was one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism....

.

Selected bibliography

Blundell Jones, Peter, Gunnar Asplund,( London: Phaidon, 2004)

Blundell Jones, Peter, Gunter Behnisch, (Basel : Birkhauser, 2000)

Blundell Jones, Peter, Hans Scharoun: A Monograph, (London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1978)

Blundell Jones, Peter, Hans Scharoun, (London : Phaidon, 1995)

Blundell Jones, Peter, Hugo Haring: The Organic Versus the Geometric, (Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges, 1999)

Blundell Jones, Peter, Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, (Oxford: Architectural, 2002)

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