Jonathan Glancey
person Architecture and design writer
person Architecture and design writer
Introduction
Jonathan Glancey is a London-born journalist, critic and author. He has lived in many parts of the world, including India and the Spanish Pyrenees, and in recent years in the Scottish Highlands, Venice and the Suffolk-Norfolk border in the UK. His interest in architecture is life-long as is his fascination with design and engineering in all their many forms and his fondness for dogs, birds, aircraft, steam railway locomotives and dragonflies.
Experience
Jonathan began his career with the Architectural Review which took him around the world before joining the Independent as its first Architecture and Design Editor and moving to the Guardian where he travelled extensively including through Iraq shortly before the Bush-Blair invasion of 2003. Now freelance, he writes for newspapers, magazines and websites worldwide. His has made and contributed to numerous TV and radio programmes.
Selected publications
Jonathan's many books include The Story of Architecture, Lost Buildings, Where We Live, Spitfire: the biography, Concorde: the rise and fall of the supersonic airliner, The Journey Matters, Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier, Giants of Steam and Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice.
Education
Jonathan holds an MA from Magdalen College, Oxford.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Committee of International Architectural Critics (CICA), a Companion of the Guild of St George, a charitable education trust founded by John Ruskin, and Patron of The Betjeman Society. He has spoken at literary festivals from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to Auckland, New Zealand.
