Blundell Jones, Peter, 1949 - 2016

Person

Dates

Existence: 4 January 1949 - 19 August 2016

Biography

Professor Peter Blundell Jones (1949-2016), or PBJ as he was often known, was an architectural historian who joined the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield in 1994, having previously taught at Cambridge and South Bank universities.

Blundell Jones published on a prolific scale, writing over 500 journal articles and 13 books, including monographs on previously marginalised architects including Hans Scharoun and Hugo Häring. Key research areas included 19th and 20th century architects, the birth of modernism, urban history, architecture and ritual, architecture and landscape, architecture of China, Japan and Korea and the history of architectural education. Although predominantly an academic, PBJ also practiced as an architect, designing a number of buildings including The Round House in Stoke Canon, Devon, which he built for his parents, and features in Pesvner’s Buildings of England.

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Interview with Konrad Frey and Bernard Hafner, July 1988

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/5

Scope and Contents

Interview with Austrian architects Konrad Frey and Bernard Hafner, taking place in a restaurant with some interference and background noise. Discussing their time at the Graz school of architecture, and various housing projects. Some parts in German. Part of a series of three tapes titled 'Graz Interviews'. Tape 'Graz interviews 1'.

Dates: July 1988

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with (Laurids/Manfred) Ortner, 28 June 1996

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/51

Scope and Contents

Interview with (Laurids/Manfred) Ortner [about his career and architecture projects] in German. Tape titled 'Graz'.

Dates: 28 June 1996

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Lucien Kroll, 19 November 1986

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/1

Scope and Contents

Interview with Lucien Kroll about his architectural work, in French. They discuss the school Kroll designed with a few contemporary architects. He explains the structure of the buildings, their use and why certain elements were included, as well as the struggles faced during the conception of the project, and the cost, engineers and mathematics.

Dates: 19 November 1986

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Lucien Kroll, September 1989

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/13

Scope and Contents

Interview with Lucien Kroll about his architectural work, in French. They discuss the school designed by Kroll, and the fact that he had been chosen to be the architect. He took into account the students' views, opinions and needs when designing the school, and he explains the different teachings and lessons in the school.

Dates: September 1989

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Lucien Kroll, August 1990

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/15

Scope and Contents

Interview with Lucien Kroll about his architectural work, in English. They discuss Kroll's architect projects, including the struggles met during the planning of one of his building projects. Sound quality poor.

Dates: August 1990

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Lucien Kroll, 1995

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/45

Scope and Contents

Interview with Lucien Kroll about his architectural work, in French, some parts recorded outside. They discuss ecological subjects and architecture linked to ecology in the urban environment. They talk about outside lessons, in a kind of street amphitheater, and how to include nature in their buildings. Tape titled 'Kroll ecological centre christian projst & co'.

Dates: 1995

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with [Manfred Kovatsch], [26 September 1994]

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/43

Scope and Contents

Interview with [Manfred Kovatsch], [about his career and architecture projects] mostly in German.

Dates: [26 September 1994]

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Manfred Partl, April 1994

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/59

Scope and Contents

Interview with Manfred Partl about his career and architecture projects [in Graz], mentions Szyszkowitz Kowalski, in German.

Dates: April 1994

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, 18 November 1994

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/39

Scope and Contents

Interview with Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, discussing the Graz school of architecture. This includes the generations of Graz architects that he was part of (e.g. 1970's - Giencke, Kada, Szyszkowitz), and how many Graz architecture students choose to stay in Graz after their studies are complete.

Dates: 18 November 1994

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Markus Pernthaler, 26 June 1996

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/50

Scope and Contents

Interview with Markus Pernthaler [about his career and architecture projects] in German. Tape titled 'Graz'.

Dates: 26 June 1996

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Michael Grice, 8 March 2000

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/66

Scope and Contents

Interview with English architect Michael Grice about Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. This includes when, as a student, Grice went to live with Asplund and his family in Stockholm for a year in 1936/1937. They discuss Asplund's family, architectural projects (including the reaction to Asplund's extension of the Gothenburg law courts), politics, and general life with the family in Sweden. Tape titled 'Asplund Research'.

Dates: 8 March 2000

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Michael Szyskkowitz, 28 October 1997

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/58

Scope and Contents

Interview with Michael Szyskkowitz about his architectural projects, in German. Tape titled 'Visit [&] project at [Gebenkinten]'.

Dates: 28 October 1997

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Pernthaler, April 1994

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 142

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/62

Scope and Contents

Interview with [Markus] Pernthaler about his career and architecture projects in [Graz], in German.

Dates: April 1994

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Peter Hübner, November 1986

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/3

Scope and Contents

Interview with Peter Hübner about his architectural work, including his involvement in designing Morgenstern School, mainly in English with some German sections. Originally recorded over two tapes. Second tape dated 25 November 1986.

Dates: November 1986

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Peter Hübner, 8 September 1989

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/12

Scope and Contents

Interview with Peter Hübner about his architectural work, particularly his work designing the primary school in [Stuttgart-Stammheim]. PBJ titled the tape '[Stammheim] school'. Small section in German.

Dates: 8 September 1989

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Peter Blundell Jones Archive / Audio-visual material / Interviews with architects / Interviews with architects on cassette tapes

Interview with Peter Hübner, 1 August 1991

Item — Box Blundell Jones Box 141

Reference code: 490/6/1/1/19

Scope and Contents

Interview with Peter Hübner, the first half in English and second half in German. Discussing Hübner's project, working with a youth group and their parents/social workers to design a new youth centre in Stuttgart-Stammheim, Germany. The project was completed in 1991. Tape titled by PBJ 'Stammheim'.

Dates: 1 August 1991