Jonathan Glancey

Jonathan Glancey, FRIBA is an architectural critic and writer who was the architecture and design editor at The Guardian , a position he held from 1997 to February 2012. He previously held the same post at The Independent . He also has been involved with the architecture magazines Building Design , Architectural Review , The Architect and Blueprint . He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA.

Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn ^[1] he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited (2010) ^[2] on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings.

He is a fan of Le Corbusier.^{[ citation needed ]} Currently he reports on architecture and design for the website BBC Culture, and he has written articles about Andrea Palladio who was a Renaissance man into architecture and established what is known to be 'Palladianism'.

Education

Glancey attended St Benedict's School in Ealing, London ^[3] and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. ^[4]

Books by Glancey

• New British architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989) ISBN   0-500-34107-9
• Pillar Boxes (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989) ISBN   0-7011-3447-X
• 20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the Century (London: Carlton, 1998) ISBN   1-85868-519-2
• The Story of Architecture (London; New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000) ISBN   0-7513-4881-3
• London: Bread and Circuses (London: Verso Books, 2001) ISBN   1-85984-645-9
• The Train: A Photographic History (London: Carlton, 2004) ISBN   978-1-84732-465-8
• John Betjeman on Trains (London: Methuen, 2006) ISBN   978-0-413-77612-9
• Spitfire: The Biography, 2006
• John Betjeman on Churches (London: Methuen, 2007) ISBN   978-0-413-77651-8
• Tornado: 21st Century Steam (London: Books on Track, 2010) ISBN   978-0-9566770-0-6
• Nagaland: A journey to India's forgotten frontier, April 2011
• Giants of Steam (London: Atlantic Books, 2012) ISBN   978-184354-769-3
• Harrier: The Biography (London: Atlantic Books, 2013) ISBN   978-1-84354-891-1
• Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner (London: Atlantic Books, October 2015) ISBN   978-1-78239-107-4
• What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower? (London: Laurence King Publishing, February 2017) ISBN   978-1-78067-919-8
• Wings Over Water: The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire (London: Atlantic Books, 2020) ISBN   978-1-78649-419-1
• The Journey Matters (London: Atlantic Books, 2019) ISBN   978-1-78649-416-0

References

1. Glancey, Jonathan (15 May 2010). "The Voice of Outrage". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
2. Jonathan Glancey, Shehani Fernando and Michael Tait (7 June 2010). "Outrage revisited: From London to Milton Keynes". Length: 9min 14sec. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
3. Glancey, Jonathan (30 December 1995). "by Jonathan Glancey Philip Lawrence" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 14 June 2022.
4. Glancey, Jonathan (21 May 2001). "Town and country planning". The Guardian University Guide.

External links

• BBC Culture
• Articles at the Guardian
• Journalisted – Articles by Jonathan Glancey
• – Article by Jonathan Glancey on "Finding Nagaland: India's final frontier"
• Jonathan Glancey at IMDb