British architectural critic and writer
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
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