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Name
  
Jonathan Glancey


Role
  
Writer

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Books
  
Story of Architecture, Lost Buildings: Demolish, Spitfire ‑ the Biography, Eyewitness Companion: Architecture, Modern World Architecture

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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.

Contents

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Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited (2010) 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.

Daniel Libeskind - In Conversation with Jonathan Glancey


Education

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

Books by Glancey

  • New British architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989) ISBN 0-500-34107-9
  • 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
  • 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
  • What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower? (London: Laurence King Publishing, February 2017) ISBN 978-1-78067-919-8

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