Jonathan Meades
Articles by jonathan meades
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Modernist master
- 21 August 2008
Despite the carping of anti-modernist reactionaries, Le Corbusier remains the greatest architect of the 20th century and a colossal study just published does justice to his protean creativity
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Wearisome familiarity
- 07 August 2008
- 1 comment
The Sixties Unplugged: a Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
Gerard DeGroot Macmillan, 528pp, £20
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Ancient and modern
- 10 July 2008
In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity. Jonathan Meades on a man who loved the past and hated his contemporaries
Arts & Culture
The last modern architect
- 15 May 2008
Richard Rogers's achievements as a maker of extraordinary buildings are in danger of being obscured by his status as a new Labour panjandrum
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Ideal homes exhibition
- 27 March 2008
Villages of Vision: a Study of Strange Utopias
Gillian Darley Five Leaves Publications, 341pp, £14.99
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How to misread Robbe-Grillet
- 06 March 2008
- 1 comment
Jonathan Meades on the supreme novelist of France's trente glorieuses
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Cities of dreams
- 28 February 2008
- 1 comment
Fifty per cent of the world's population now lives in cities. By 2050 it will be 75 per cent, so considering the urban future is important. We need more than platitudes
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In the name of God
- 09 October 2006
Sacred Causes: religion and politics from the European dictators to al-Qaeda
Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557pp, £25
ISBN 0007195745
Arts & Culture
Monuments to the missing
- 17 July 2006
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Gavin Stamp Profile Books, 224pp, £14.99
ISBN 1904897606
Following the horrors of the Somme, architects set about commemorating the dead. Jonathan Meades salutes the timeless grandeur of Edwin Lutyens’s arch at Thiepval
