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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.
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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