Education
Glancey attended Street Benedict"s School in Ealing, London and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Glancey attended Street Benedict"s School in Ealing, London and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.
He previously held the same post at The Independent. He also has been involved with the architecture magazines Building Design, Architectural Review, The Architect and Blueprint. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects. Following in the footsteps of Ian Nairn he made a series of four films, Outrage Revisited (2010) on the banality of Britain"s postwar buildings.
Currently he reports on architecture and design for the website British Broadcasting Corporation Culture.
Books by Glancey New British architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989) 20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the Century (London: Carlton, 1998) The Story of Architecture (London. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000) London: Bread and Circuses (London: Verso Books, 2001) The Train: A Photographic History (London: Carlton, 2004) John Betjeman on Trains (London: Methuen, 2006) Spitfire: The Biography, 2006 John Betjeman on Churches (London: Methuen, 2007) Nagaland: A journey to India's forgotten frontier, April 2011 Giants of Steam (London: Atlantic Books, 2012) Harrier: The Biography (London: Atlantic Books, 2013).