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In this collection of commentary about all kinds of architecture, Glancey doesn‘t hold back. In the section on parametric design: “We have had to learn to walk through cities decorated as if by a troop of drunken baboons with buildings that bend, twist, writhe and lean to no artistic effect.” I enjoyed reading his strong opinions and I also learned a lot of interesting things. This book may have changed the way I look at architecture.

In 1994, Zaha Hadid won a competition to design an opera house on Cardiff Bay. It was rejected by the project‘s financial backer on grounds of unspecified ‘uncertainties‘ (i.e. philistinism, chauvinism and xenophobia).
[Photo is of an auditorium in Baku, in one of many buildings Hadid designed since then. She died in 2016)

Asked for his occupation in a court of law, Frank Lloyd Wright replied ‘The world‘s greatest architect.‘ His wife remonstrated with him. ‘I had no choice, Olgivanna,‘ he told her, ‘I was under oath.‘

Today, the City of London skyline is a disgrace, a wretched, spikey, loud and ill-mannered thing, shouting ‘money,‘ its blingy new buildings barging their way into the smallest court or narrowest alley while overshadowing St Paul‘s.

In 1915, Stonehenge was auctioned by the estate agents Knight, Frank & Rutley. The hammer came down on ‘Lot 15, Stonehenge, about 30 acres…‘ at Qe,600. Cecil Chubb, a Wiltshire businessman, bought it as a present for his wife. She was not amused. Chubb gave the site to the nation, receiving a knighthood in return.