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| - | '''Charles Jencks''' (b. [[1939]]) is an [[American architect]], [[landscape architect]] and architectural theorist. His books on the history and criticism of [[Modernism]] and [[Postmodernism]] were widely read in architectural circles and beyond. | ||
| - | Born in [[Baltimore]], he first studied English Literature at [[Harvard University]], later gaining an MA in architecture from the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design|Graduate School of Design]] in 1965. He also has a [[PhD]] in Architectural History from [[University College, London]]. | + | '''University College London''' ('''UCL''') is a British university institution and a constituent college of the [[University of London]], based primarily in [[Bloomsbury]], [[London]]. In the 2009 [[THES - QS World University Rankings]], UCL is ranked 4th in the world. |
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| - | Although not inventing the term [[postmodern]], his [[1977]] book ''The Language of Postmodern Architecture'' is often regarded as having popularised its use. | + | |
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| - | Charles Jencks has become a leading figure in British [[landscape architecture]]. His landscape work is inspired by [[fractal]]s, genetics, [[chaos theory]], waves and [[soliton]]s. In [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], he designed the Landform at the [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]]. These themes are expanded in his own private garden, the [[Garden of Cosmic Speculation]], ar Portrack House near [[Dumfries]]. He is also a furniture designer and sculptor, completing the DNA Sculpture in London's [[Kew Gardens]] in 2003. | + | |
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| - | His late wife, [[Maggie Keswick Jencks]] was the founder of the [[Maggie's centres|Maggie's cancer caring centres]], for which Jencks has designed gardens, and the author of a book on ''Chinese Gardens''. | + | |
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| - | ==Select bibliography== | + | |
| - | *''The Iconic Building - The Power of Enigma'', Frances Lincoln, London, 2005. | + | |
| - | *''The Garden of Cosmic Speculation'', Frances Lincoln Limited, London, October 2003. | + | |
| - | *''The New Paradigm in Architecture'', (seventh edition of ''The Language of Post-Modern Architecture''), Yale University Press, London, New Haven, 2002. | + | |
| - | *''Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture'', The Monacelli Press, 2000 | + | |
| - | *''Architecture 2000 and Beyond'', (Critique & new predictions for 1971 book), Academy, Wiley, May 2000 | + | |
| - | *''The Architecture of the Jumping Universe'', Academy, London & NY, 1995. Second Edition Wiley, 1997. | + | |
| - | *''Heteropolis - Los Angeles, The Riots & Hetero-Architecture'', Academy, London & NY, 1993. | + | |
| - | *''The New Moderns'', Academy London, Rizzoli, NY 1990. | + | |
| - | *''The Prince, The Architects and New Wave Monarchy'', Academy, London and Rizzoli, NY 1988. | + | |
| - | *''Post-Modernism, The New Classicism in Art and Architecture'', Rizzoli, NY and Academy, London 1987; German edition, 1987, reprinted 1988. | + | |
| - | *''What is Post-Modernism?'', St Martins Press, NY 1986, Academy, London 1986. Second Edition 1988. Third Edition 1989. Fourth Edition 1996. | + | |
| - | *''Towards A Symbolic Architecture'', Rizzoli, NY; Academy, London 1985. | + | |
| - | *''Kings of Infinite Space'', St. Martins Press, NY; Academy, London 1983. | + | |
| - | *''Abstract Representation'', St. Martins Press, NY 1983, Architectural Design monograph, London 1983. | + | |
| - | *''Skyscrapers - Skycities'', Rizzoli, NY 1980, Academy, London 1980. | + | |
| - | *''Signs, Symbols and Architecture'', edited with Richard Bunt and Geoffrey Broadbent, John Wiley, NY and London 1980. | + | |
| - | *''Late-Modern Architecture'', Rizzoli, NY 1980, Academy, London 1980. Translated into German and Spanish. | + | |
| - | *''Bizarre Architecture'', Rizzoli, NY 1979 and Academy, London 1979. | + | |
| - | *''The Language of Post-Modern Architecture'', Rizzoli, NY 1977, revised 1978, Third Ed. 1980, Fourth Ed. 1984, Fifth Ed. 1988, Sixth Ed. 1991, Academy Editions London 1977, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1991. | + | |
| - | *''Modern Movements in Architecture'', Anchor Press, NY 1973. | + | |
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University College London (UCL) is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London. In the 2009 THES - QS World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 4th in the world.
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