All articles by Jonathan Glancey – Page 6
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OpinionSage of Shepperton slips away
JG Ballard, who died earlier this week, took on modern architecture in his stories more than once — and the power of his work was such that his fictions have become our reality
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OpinionDon't make museums for morons
Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects’ refurbishment of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum evades the vogue for dumbing down our cultural wonders
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OpinionHigh society and low taste
As the Prince of Wales gears up for a rematch with the RIBA, what kind of architectural delights came to fruit after his Hampton Court speech 25 years ago?
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OpinionWren's template for austerity
Tough times don’t necessarily mean inferior architecture. Just look at what Wren produced for the City of London on a shoestring
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OpinionWhatever happened to craft?
Architects should put away the computer and dig into the toolbox for an appreciation of materials and how buildings actually work
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OpinionPitching for rational exuberance
As the boom turns to bust, what lessons can we learn from the past about blending radical architecture with civic-mindedness?
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OpinionValue the whole, not the parts
Nature England this week has broken with quango tradition and spoken sense: that the arbitrary division we make between the areas we conserve and those we exploit must end
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OpinionArchitecture’s fleurs du mal
City skylines the world over have been assaulted by the brash productions of neoliberalism for 25 years — it’s time we substituted these flowers of evil for a more sustainable and cultivated architecture
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OpinionUnfashionable locations
As the bust finally hits Dubai, do Sanaa, designer of this year’s upcoming Serpentine pavilion, and Corbusier, the show of whose work is now at the Barbican in London after its Liverpool opening, point the way to a more humane and modest architecture?
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OpinionAll those against, say neigh
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Maybe it’s a big horse. Maybe it’s a big horse, who? Maybe it’s a big horse I’m a Londoner that I love London so…”
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OpinionWhen legacy is dead on arrival
The lack of civic-mindedness during the decades of “greed is good” has delivered only zombie public spaces, devoid of any life
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OpinionBuilding with mud, glorious mud
Using mud to build may be an extreme example of giving preference to local materials, but if we don’t explore such options we are condemned to the banal
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FeaturesResearch offers a ray of hope
The economic meltdown gives us a chance to reassess our priorities and decide what kind of architecture is truly worthwhile
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FeaturesJan’s refusal to be imprisoned
Architect Jan Kaplicky and actor Patrick McGoohan, who gave Portmeirion a starring role in The Prisoner, shared the same inability to handle the mediocre
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FeaturesIn praise of tungsten light
Why is government phasing out the harmless and cheerful tungsten bulb while sanctioning the mania for overlighting?
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OpinionThe audacity of open architecture
Under the Bush presidency, the US has been erecting bunker-like embassy designs worldwide. With the inauguration of Obama, will the new US embassy in south London take a different tack?
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OpinionMobile homes we could live with
Harvard and BMW are collaborating on an innovative housing project to use the principles of car design — just in time for Christmas
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FeaturesNo more starry-eyed air travel
With Stansted brought to a standstill by climate change protestors, we have to admit that the great age of aviation architecture is over
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OpinionTraditionalists who do modern
Andrés Duany, he of the Congress for New Urbanism, rocks up in the UK to tell us where modernism went wrong just as the Saudis sit down with Norman and Zaha to discuss the remodelling of central Mecca
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FeaturesHow the boom busted planning
Boom has been horrible for UK architecture, bringing with it the blight of US-style malls to our towns and countryside. Will better planning return to the equation in leaner times?