Jonathan Meades has written and performed in many films on subjects ranging from the architecture of European dictators to the utopian avoidance of right angles
Jonathan Meades: letter to a young architect
Author Archives: Jonathan Meades
Terrain Vague: assigning value to ambiguous space
The body politic gaily riding roughshod over our built and natural environment needs to be reined in
Magnificent Belgium: a country without a label
Jonathan Meades celebrates Belgium’s art, food, cities, and above all else, its magnificent suburbanism
‘Does the nationality of the architect determine the nationality of the building?’
The wretched terminal Ingerlish coalition believes above all else in the dud fiction of Fortress Britannia
French urban planning stands in deep contradiction to its dream of wholeness
France optimistically ‘celebrates’ whatever it is that peoples supposedly have in common − a hangover from the Enlightenment
Outrage: ‘Lost causes fill the margins of architectural history’
If you live a long life you will see your works destroyed − if, that is, any of your projects were actually realised
