In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by mak…

- Jonathan Meades

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being…

- Jonathan Meades

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a c…

- Jonathan Meades

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and…

- Jonathan Meades

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.

- Jonathan Meades

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more…

- Jonathan Meades

I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the…

- Jonathan Meades

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which …

- Jonathan Meades

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

- Jonathan Meades