Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey, 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 he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings.
He is a fan of Le Corbusier. Currently he reports on architecture and design for the website BBC Culture, and he has written articles about Andrea Palladio, the noted Renaissance architect active chiefly in Venice, whose classically influenced style became known as 'Palladianism'.
Education
Glancey attended St Benedict's School in Ealing, West London and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.Books by Glancey
- New British architecture
- Pillar Boxes
- 20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the Century
- The Story of Architecture
- London: Bread and Circuses
- The Train: A Photographic History
- John Betjeman on Trains
- Spitfire: The Biography, 2006
- John Betjeman on Churches
- Tornado: 21st Century Steam
- Nagaland: A journey to India's forgotten frontier, April 2011
- Giants of Steam
- Harrier: The Biography
- Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner
- What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower?
- Wings Over Water: The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire
- ''The Journey Matters''