Jonathan Glancey



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Full name: Jonathan Glancey

Area of interest: Architecture, design, cities, flying (is a pilot), any machine that moves, all animals, especially dogs and horses

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:jonathan.glancey@guardian.co.uk jonathan.glancey@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Jonathan Glancey

Blog: Comment is free...; the blog art & architecture

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Biography:
Education: Oxford University

Career: Architectural Review: assistant editor; The Architect: editor; Blueprint (architecture and design magazine): a founding editor; The Independent: Architecture and Design Editor; joined the Guardian in June 1997

Current position/role: Architecture and Design Editor


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Awards/Honours: Architectural Journalist of the Year, 1982; Honorary Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects, 1997

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Books & Debate:

 * Nocon on photography: Gene Nocon on assignment with eight top photographers OCLC 21038602, 1988
 * Douglas Scott OCLC 20827099, 1988
 * Pillar boxes OCLC 23970269, 1989
 * New British architecture OCLC 21412864, 1990
 * The new moderns OCLC 22005224, with Richard Bryant, 1990
 * 20th Century architecture: the structures that shaped the century OCLC 40174947, 1998
 * Nigel Coates: body buildings and city scapes OCLC 42071613, 1999
 * The story of architecture OCLC, 2000
 * London: bread and circuses OCLC 47777273, 2001
 * Heavy industry OCLC 50056084, 2002
 * Dungeness OCLC 54887607, 2003
 * The car: a history of the automobile OCLC 54437213, 2003
 * The train OCLC 59262679, 2004
 * John Betjeman on trains OCLC 70229933, 2006
 * Modern world architecture OCLC 70128398, 2006
 * Spitfire: the biography OCLC 71239431, 2006

Latest work: John Betjeman on churches OCLC123797776, 2007

Speaking/Appearances: RCA talk series, sponsored by BD: Jonathan Glancey and Zaha Hadid from November 2007

Current debate: Jonathan Glancey on London's 2012 Olympic stadium guardian.co, 7th November 2007 (VIDEO) 

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 * see also Classics of everyday design

Column remit: Architecture and design

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Role: Architecture and design editor

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Email: [mailto:jonathan.glancey@guardian.co.uk jonathan.glancey@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Jonathan Glancey; Arts: Architecture / Design

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 * also contributes to art&architecture blog



Articles:

 * new BBC Broadcasting House: So what does £1bn buy?'' - It was 10 years in the making, it cost a fortune and it lost its architect along the way. But the BBC's new Broadcasting House is finally finished - 29th January 2011
 * to talk about what we really want from our high streets'' - There is still something special about browsing in well-stocked specialist shops run by staff with truly expert knowledge - 10th January 2011
 * best architecture for 2011'' - Jonathan Glancey looks ahead to a celebration of the architect James Stirling at Tate Britain, as well as the year's other architecture highlights - 8th January 2011
 * your home: convert a Martello tower'' - Britain's Martello towers were built to keep the French navy at bay. Jonathan Glancey reports on how one rotting relic in Suffolk was turned into an extraordinary new home - 20th December 2010
 * skeleton safari at the Royal Veterinary College'' - Is this the weirdest courtyard cafe in Britain? Jonathan Glancey has a delightful cuppa surrounded by the skulls and bones of dead animals - 12th December 2010
 * up the suburbs with the help of the localism bill'' - Dull cul-de-sacs may benefit from local people making planning decisions. But such power requires education too - 8th December 2010
 * Charles's views on planning count, but so do ours'' - An over-centralised and opaque planning system is bad for Britain - 26th November 2010
 * Shakespeare Theatre: All's well …'' - . . . that ends well. At last Stratford-upon-Avon finally has a theatre worthy of Shakespeare's name - 23rd November 2010
 * goes with the flow as London's mayor unveils designs for eight stations'' - British architects and engineers have shaped calm, elegant and free-flowing spaces for the capital's 2018 east-west rail link - 20th November 2010
 * new Routemaster bus is a design cacophony'' - It's very red – and has much going for it – but there is just too much going on compared with previous Routemasters - 11th November 2010
 * architecture doesn't come cheap'' - In some medieval villages, half the annual budget was spent on building the parish church. Now our money goes on ourselves - 2nd November 2010
 * scariest building in Britain?'' - Is the Royal Masonic School for Boys the scariest building in Britain? - 30th October 2010
 * New Change: never brown in town'' - It has been designed by Jean Nouvel – but the brown glass walls of this new London shopping centre jar with its City surroundings - 23rd October 2010
 * Foster's back-to-front car'' - It's the 1930s car that was meant to change American lives. And now the Dymaxion's back – courtesy of Norman Foster - 5th October 2010
 * Hadid's Maxxi was the right choice for the Stirling prize'' - This stunning Rome museum is just the kind of project the Stirling prize should celebrate. Shame it could never have been built in Britain - 4th October
 * Murdoch's Sky scraper'' - What does this building say about BSkyB? - 2nd October 2010
 * Architecture Biennale: castles in the air'' - From barely there buildings to ethereal cloud walks, the Venice Biennale is where architects go to dream - 4th September 2010
 * and the Jellyfish theatre'' - It is Britain's first fully functioning recycled theatre – made of old nails, pallets and discarded doors. As the Jellyfish opens, Jonathan Glancey examines the rise of 'junkitecture' - 21st August 2010
 * city: London's Strata tower'' - It is the world's first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines. But is London's Strata a green gimmick – or the future? Jonathan Glancey takes to the skies - 18th July 2010
 * Foster in the Lords: what might have been'' - Foster could have used a role in politics to campaign for a more intelligently designed country. Instead he let the opportunity go to waste - 12th July 2010
 * communities are a social ill'' - Paranoia is the reason we gate our streets and homes yet the more we cut ourselves off from one another the more it spreads - 9th July 2010
 * with the V&A's Small Spaces'' - A teahouse on stilts, a tower of books, a woodland shelter – seven one-off buildings have taken root in the V&A's galleries - 9th June 2010
 * pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium'' - Cape Town's stunning Green Point stadium is the jewel in South Africa's World Cup crown. Will it be a sure-fire winner – or an expensive own goal? - 30th May 2010
 * of the skyscraper shows City on road to recovery'' - From the cheese-grater to the walkie-talkie, a host of towering developments shows that confidence is back in the Square Mile - 22nd May 2010
 * 2012 mascots: Part CCTV camera, all cash cow'' -At least the CCTV-eyed twosome are a big improvement on the London Olympics logo - 19th May 2010
 * Nairn's voice of outrage'' - His attacks on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings made Ian Nairn an inspiration for a generation of architectural critics. Jonathan Glancey celebrates the scourge of 'subtopia' - 15th May 2010
 * architecture Expo: an empty experience?'' - Thomas Heatherwick's much-hyped design for the British pavilion may be beautiful, but it lacks the crowd-pleasing magic of the great exhibitions age- 5th May 2010
 * has Labour done for architecture?'' - There were big promises, striking galleries, two new parliaments. But they made shocking mistakes, too - 24th April 2010
 * of a photograph: Labour's election manifesto launch'' - The devil is in the detail as the party's top team take their places behind Gordon Brown in Birmingham - 13th April
 * manifestos: Tale of two covers'' - Soviet chic and austere hymn book – the looks Labour and Conservatives have picked for their manifestos - 13th April
 * the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz?'' - The legendary Paris gallery now has a regional outpost. Will it live up to the name? Jonathan Glancey takes a high-speed train to find out - 10th April 2010
 * of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam'' - The Netherlands was once a byword for architecture that was cool, calm and collected. Not any more. Jonathan Glancey is thrilled by a madcap new hotel - 3rd April 2010
 * the Euston Arch – and get railway architecture back on track'' - Plans to redevelop the London station could include the resurrection of its much-missed Doric gateway. Let's hope so - 27th March 2010
 * deal: the London Eye turns 10'' - Despite its wobbly beginnings, the capital's giant ferris wheel has become a much-loved symbol of London. And even urban sprawl seems beautiful from the top - 13th March 2010
 * Tesco chumps of Norfolk'' - A thumping great Tesco is the last thing this seaside town needs. But try telling the planners - 3rd March 2010
 * Chipperfield: perfect harmony'' - Germany woke up to the bold, simple brilliance of David Chipperfield a long time ago. Is Britain finally catching on? - 3rd February 2010
 * to Lucienne Day, Britain's design doyenne'' - Fusing abstract art with natural motifs, Lucienne Day created playful and intelligent textiles that have become part of the fabric of everyday life - 3rd February 2010
 * art of industry'' - Mandelson's rejection of so-called smokestack manufacturing lacks vision. We need steel - 22nd December 2009
 * Real: the Serpentine gallery goes back to the drawing board'' - A sculpted motorcycle jacket, an exquisite metal heart ... a new exhibition argues that good design can be beautiful as well as practical. But is it art? - 12th December
 * it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map?'' - The expansion of the Oyster card brings yet more change for Harry Beck's classic design. It's time to go back to the drawing board - 28th November 2009
 * Hadid's stairway into the future'' - With its swooping curves, impossible angles and haunting views, Zaha Hadid's new museum of 21st-century art is her best work yet. Jonathan Glancey gets a guided tour in Rome - 16th November
 * art deco icons? The BBC should get its history straight'' - BBC4's recent series on 1930s architecture looks at Britain's art-deco history through neon-tinted glasses. The reality is a bit more complicated - 12th November 2009
 * saves its world heritage status … just'' - The home of Georgian architecture has managed to hang on to its world heritage status. But for how long? - 8th November 2009
 * proud: The women of Bauhaus'' - When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men - so why have we never heard of them? - 7th November 2009
 * Metropolis to Blade Runner: architecture that stole the show'' - To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five - 6th November 2009
 * Glancey on architect Charles Holden'' - This memorial for the fallen haunts me - 5th November 2009 (Critic's notebook)
 * the up: the Ashmolean museum strides into the 21st century'' - It's Britain's oldest museum – and it's just had a thrilling revamp. Here's a sneak preview of the all-new Ashmolean - 26th October 2009
 * Johnson's daft 'Eiffel tower' plan'' - The London mayor wants to build an enormous monument in Stratford. It sounds like a folly of Olympic proportions - 26th October 2009
 * the Stirling prize for architecture ageist?'' - Instead of rewarding the latest architecture, we should honour buildings that have had time to prove their worth - 17th October 2009
 * Pei wins Royal Gold Medal for Architecture'' - The quiet geometries of this Chinese-American architect make him an unfashionable but deserving recipient of RIBA's architecture award - 10th October 2009
 * Foster prepares for architecture's lift-off'' - When it comes to building on the moon, the British architect has won the scientists' vote. But what might his lunar structures look like? - 22nd September 2009
 * train station: a ticket to tomorrow'' - It is majestic, daring – and a destination in itself. This glorious new station in Belgium is the future of train travel - 19th September 2009
 * design is not dead – it is overlooked'' - The nostalgia for inspired public design ignores the fact that our contemporary designers continue to excel in the commercial world - 28th August 2009
 * Carbuncle Charles row is a gift to concrete mixers'' - We seem to have relapsed into the asinine stylistic debate of the 80s. It should be about what we build, for whom and why - 25th August 2009
 * bricks that breed'' - Lego has defied the slump. Little wonder: the toy is a timely antidote to our throwaway culture - 19th August 2009
 * Foster sweeps Heathrow to the height of airport architecture'' - With the new Terminal 2 building set for soaring success, Jonathan Glancey celebrates dashing designs of the jet age - 15th August
 * myxomatosis for 'rabbit hutch Britain''' - Private house builders have been marketing Lilliputian homes to the less well-off for decades, despite much complaint - 15th August 2009
 * wood'' - Knut Hamsun is both hailed as the father of modern literature and reviled for his Nazi sympathies - 8th August 2009
 * Alsop is not the first to swap the drawing board for the easel'' - Alsop has abandoned architecture for art, but a distinguished line of figures before him prove it's not such a radical step - 8th August 2009
 * tea: Mount Snowdon's magical mountaintop cafe'' - It's a long slog to get to Hafod Eryri, Snowdon's new cafe and visitor centre, but it's worth it for the stunning design - and the brews with a view - 8th August 2009
 * and super-fast: London's new Javelin trains are a design triumph'' - But it's sad that Japanese engineering should ferry visitors to the 2012 London Olympics – once the site of a distinguished British railway works - 28th July 2009
 * prize leaves me feeling cold'' - It's a low-key shortlist responding to the recession, but how can a rural arts museum be judged against a city office block? - 25th July 2009
 * lethal estates'' - The Lakanal House deaths cast shame on Britain. We urgently need to audit all similar blocks - 10th July 2009
 * return of the seaside pier'' - They had their glory days in the 1950s. But then Britain's magnificent seaside piers were allowed to fall into disrepair. Now they're staging a comeback - 27th June 2009
 * skeletons and souls'' - John Ruskin's masterful political text is essential reading for MPs in search of a moral compass - 20th June 2009
 * tower blocks: Why shouldn't animals get a taste of the high life?'' - Encouraging animals to live in skyscrapers might sound batty, but architects have long loved designing buildings for non-human clients - 13th June 2009
 * not adjust your art gallery'' - This is the dizzying facade of Munich's new Brandhorst Museum - home to a world- class collection of modern art - 4th June 2009
 * MPs failed us on the home front'' - If politicians had spent our money on good architecture and design we might have forgiven them - instead they bought wilfully ugly second homes and filled them with tat - 29th May 2009
 * Charles spurns demolition job in bid to build bridges with architects'' - He is concerned with 'organic' architecture rather than simply recreating past styles - 13th May 2009
 * English architects survive in New York?'' - Norman Foster and Richard Rogers are the first to suffer as redevelopment of Ground Zero hits hard times. Hardly surprising - they're Limeys - 12th May 2009
 * quake as Charles clears his throat'' - Twenty-five years after the infamous 'carbuncle' speech, architects are steeling themselves for another royal broadside - 9th May 2009
 * track and off message'' - Why is public cash being used to bail out Indian-owned Jaguar while our railways buckle from underfunding? - 8th May 2009
 * and mortars: famous architectural spats of the past'' - As Frank Gehry falls out with Miami planners, Jonathan Glancey looks at other serious architectural rows that threatened buildings such as the Sydney Opera House and St Paul's Cathedral - 25th April 2009
 * view from Highgrove'' - It's 25 years since Prince Charles condemned modern architecture as 'a carbuncle'. Now, with his recent broadside against Richard Rogers, he has waded into a fresh controversy - 23rd April 2009
 * new Towner gallery lights up Eastbourne'' - It is one of the sunniest places in Britain, and now it has a sleek new art gallery to match - 20th April 2009
 * Bath lose its World Heritage status?'' - For 22 years, the glorious spa town has been a World Heritage site. But now, thanks to a giant mall and 2,200 flats, it could be stripped of its status - 6th April 2009
 * Tate Modern's extension stacks up'' - The costs may be spiralling for Tate's £215m pyramid, but I think the result will be worth every penny - 3rd April 2009
 * Row art gallery: east London architecture at its finest'' - Unlike the sanitised chain restaurants nearby, Raven Row strikes up a compelling conversation with Spitalfields' rough and ready history - 27th March 2009
 * gaunt, skeletal beauty of pylons'' - Our desire for ever more electricity is fuelling a fresh row over pylons - and where to place them - 26th March 2009
 * designs'' - The building trade is struggling, yet architecture courses are more popular than ever before. It makes perfect sense - 20th March 2009
 * architecture of recession'' - The economic crisis has put paid to the trophy building projects of the last 20 years, but architects need not despair – the wheel will turn - 7th March 2009
 * revival'' - A better Olympic legacy for east London would be a return to its great manufacturing tradition - 20th February 2009
 * stonecutter who shook the world'' - He rose from humble origins to become one of the greatest architects ever. On the eve of a major show, Jonathan Glancey celebrates the life and legacy of Andrea Palladio - 3rd January 2009
 * and circuses'' - Our leaders can't buy us off with the prospect of Dettori and Hamilton jousting on chariots - 15th November 2008
 * hope and clarity'' - Le Corbusier,the 'secular monk' of modernism, infused everything he built with spirituality - 7th October 2008
 * and unpleasant'' - The ecotowns plan, with its proposed nosy-parker scrutiny of residents, is patronising and illiberal - 2nd October 2008
 * nation under water'' - The rain keeps falling, so why aren't developers or the government preparing for our flooded future? - 9th September 2008
 * the wrong track'' - Our railways may be revitalised, but their stations risk becoming glorified shopping malls - 2nd September 2008
 * clever'' - Once threatened with extinction, our handsome red telephone kiosks may be saved by an ingenious adoption scheme - Guardian.co.uk - 30th August 2008
 * manual vanishing'' - Unfettered consumer culture is depriving us of a deep source of joy and fulfilment: making stuff - 23rd August 2008
 * Expert view: City's flowers first to wilt in financial gloom - 15th August 2008
 * Lego: a toy of gentle genius - The nation's love of Lego shows that, despite the collapse of our manufacturing industry, we still love making things - 28th July 2008
 * Full steam again - It has come to be seen as outdated, but this clean, powerful technology is overdue a revival - 16th July 2008
 * Le U-turn on French cars - Despite their chic looks, Nicole, Papa and their Renault have lost out to a new breed of Japanese cars in a recent survey - 26th June 2008
 * Expert view: Bigger is not always better - Prince Charles has something to say about a breed of new buildings that many of us might well find questionable, and even disturbing - 1st February 2008
 * Extinction of the engineers - Britain's industrial future is threatened by a lack of skilled workers and a glut of postmodern apathy - 15th October 2007
 * Think before you build - New sprawling estates on cheap lowland will only bring more floods. There are better options - 27th July 2007
 * The horror of Heathrow - The already massive airport's expansion only benefits retailers and will further compound the misery of air passengers - 17th June 2007
 * A gimcrack dystopia - What difference has 10 years of Blair made to the way Britain looks? - 1st May 2007
 * Homes, sweet homes? - The latest company merger will create a housebuilding giant - and more new homes devoid of character - 26th March 2007
 * Onwards and domewards - Bloated and ill-defined regeneration plans could leave a disastrous legacy for the 2012 Olympics - 13th December 2006
 * Arrested developments - The Barker review urges an overhaul in planning powers with regard for little other than economic growth - 5th December 2006
 * A peevish tax on taste - A proposal to levy rates based on the aesthetic qualities of your home is dim and disturbing - 14th November 2006
 * A memorial bursting with life - Many of Britain's sculptures are simply hollow shells that lack any real power, but a new tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa is vibrant and full of character - 10th November 2006
 * Running on empty - No one would guess from the construction of the Olympics site that London is one of the wealthiest capital cities in the world - 9th November 2006
 * Britain's industrial future is threatened by a lack of skilled workers and a glut of postmodern apathy - 15th October 2007
 * Switching the city of lights back on - Can Frank Gehry's new 'Cloud of Glass' art gallery provide Paris with a much-needed dose of architectural flamboyance? - 3rd October 2006
 * New sprawling estates on cheap lowland will only bring more floods. There are better options - 27th July 2007
 * Bloated and ill-defined regeneration plans could leave a disastrous legacy for the 2012 Olympics - 13th December 2006
 * A proposal to levy rates based on the aesthetic qualities of your home is dim and disturbing - 14th November 2006
 * A new law could see historic buildings being bulldozed should they stand in the path of profit - 20th June 2006
 * We are told that good mass housing is not a question of aesthetics or style. What a lot of rot - 8th February 2006
 * The home of steam-age locomotives can teach us something about how to build modern towns - 6th December 2005
 * We need to build more houses, but it isn't nimbyism to argue they must be in the right places - 17th August 2005



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