In his introduction to the first edition of The Buildings of England: Wiltshire (1963), Nikolaus Pevsner wrote with barely contained anger that Wiltshire would be as wonderful as it must have been in ...

Meades produced more quotable lines in his allotted hour than almost any other TV talking head I can think of Little wonder this was essentially a thesis on national identity in all its forms (mostly ...

Jonathan Meades looks at the architectural legacy of one of Europe’s most notorious dictators - Francisco Franco. He reveals that Franco’s lasting contribution to Spanish architecture wasn’t in the ...

The word "Essex" arrives dragging heaps of clanking debris attached to its rear bumper, and Meades began his odyssey with an extended demolition of Essex-related preconceptions (the county having ...

In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up the wall - jargon. In a wide-ranging programme he ...

There can be few better places to discuss what the future holds for France than in one of the most significant pieces of French design by one of the country’s most important architects. Le Corbusier's ...

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that we live in an age of architecture. In our time, architects like Bjarke Ingels inhabit a space akin to movie stars-- and more and more they're being played by them.

A RECOMMENDATION from former Oxford United striker Jack Midson helped convince Jonathan Meades to become the club’s newest signing. The 21-year-old put pen to paper on a two-year deal earlier this ...

There are , of course, the huddled masses, nameless, deprived of family, possessions, hope, dignity, wrapped in ragged blankets of despair, worn and punished for their very existence. And then there ...

This was an unvarnished portrait of a nation scrubbed clean of its lipstick, powder and paint. In the first of three films dissecting the nation that has become “his second country”, Meades turned his ...