#jonathan glancey

[mymodernmet]

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[mangodebango]

“A Radome at Fylingdales Moor" from Lost Buildings by Jonathan Glancey, England, UK, 2008.

[brianjohnspencer]

Unselfconscious artists. And here's the rub, or the metaphorical rubber that erases the natural talent of the universal infant artist: selfconsciousness. For many children it is the moment at school when they are told they are no good at drawing (or singing or dancing or maths or physics). When drawing becomes an onus, a competition awarded marks and stars and, above all, an embarrassment rather than a natural and happy form of expression, then why do it? Why even try?

Jonathan Glancey (here: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/oct/01/schools.artsfeatures)

[blech]

When Eridu or the palaces and piazzas of Renaissance Italy were shaped, architecture was the most expensive and prestigious of all cultural endeavours. Today we spread our wealth more thinly, spending ever more on disposable consumer junk, building more roads to serve ever more grim private housing estates, unsustainable supermarkets and distribution depots (and container ports and their giant ships), and the landfill sites we appear to need to shore up our insatiable, throwaway culture.

Jonathan Glancey’s swan song as the Guardian’s architecture critic: Passport to the planet.