http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/jonathan_meades en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/militant-modernism-hatherley http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/militant-modernism-hatherley Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:21:27 GMT Jonathan Meades Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley Zero Books, 146pp, £9.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/03/series-clark-television http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/03/series-clark-television Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:28:44 GMT Jonathan Meades Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation was a landmark in television, and it continues to influence programme makers to this day – for the worse

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/12/slow-food-movement-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/12/slow-food-movement-britain Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:39:35 GMT Jonathan Meades The Slow Food movement has an almost millenarian belief in the virtue of amalgamating gastronomy with ecology. It will take more than such utopian thinking, however, to transform Britain's woeful food culture

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/tania-sanchez-perfumes-guide http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/tania-sanchez-perfumes-guide Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:48:16 GMT Jonathan Meades Perfumes: the Guide Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez Profile Books, 384pp, £20

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/corbusier-greatest-century http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/corbusier-greatest-century Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:28:48 GMT Jonathan Meades 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

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/gerard-degroot-decade-history http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/gerard-degroot-decade-history Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:21:28 GMT Jonathan Meades The Sixties Unplugged: a Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade Gerard DeGroot Macmillan, 528pp, £20

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/07/crawford-archaeology-antiquity http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/07/crawford-archaeology-antiquity Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:18:50 GMT Jonathan Meades 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

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/05/richard-rogers-buildings http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/05/richard-rogers-buildings Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Jonathan Meades Richard Rogers's achievements as a maker of extraordinary buildings are in danger of being obscured by his status as a new Labour panjandrum

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/1968-lazar-jagger-sway-jones http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/1968-lazar-jagger-sway-jones Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Jonathan Meades Sway Zachary Lazar Jonathan Cape, 272pp, £11.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/gillian-darley-villages-study http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/gillian-darley-villages-study Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Jonathan Meades Villages of Vision: a Study of Strange Utopias Gillian Darley Five Leaves Publications, 341pp, £14.99

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