Charles Jencks
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 5 years ago |
Web site | www.charlesjencks.com |
Date of birth | June 21,1939 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Baltimore |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Parents | Gardner Jencks |
Ruth DeWitt Pearl | |
Structures | Elemental House |
Founded | Maggie's Centres |
Address | Viale Renato Serra, 31, 20149 Milano MI, Italy |
Hours | Open ⋅ Closes 7:30PM |
Job | Architect |
Landscape architect | |
Architectural historian | |
Education | Harvard University Graduate School Of Design |
Harvard University | |
University College London | |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Maggie Keswick Jencks |
Children | Lily Clare Jencks |
John Keswick Jencks | |
Justin Jencks | |
Cosmo Jencks | |
Designed | Star of Caledonia |
Elemental House | |
Date of died | October 13,2019 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 632645 |
What is Post- Modernism
Modern Movements in Architecture
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic
The Iconic Building
The Universe in the Landscape: Landforms by Charles Jencks
Critical Modernism
The New Paradigm in Architecture
Heteropolis
Architecture Today
Towards a symbolic architecture
Late-modern architecture and other essays
Bizarre Architecture
The new moderns
Radical Post- Modernism
Architecture 2000 and Beyond
Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture
Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture
The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Kings of Infinite Space: Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves
Free-style Classicism
Daydream Houses of Los Angeles
Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods
Can Architecture Affect Your Health?
The Prince, the architects and new wave monarchy
Ecstatic architecture
Current architecture
Designing a House
Civic Builders
Post-modern Triumphs in London
The Scottish Parliament
Skyscrapers-- skyprickers--skycities
Postmodern Design Complete
Hunt the Symbol
Post- modernism & Discontinuity
Robert AM Stern: Selected Works
Mouvements modernes en architecture
The Riddle of John Soane: Deciphering the Enigma Code of Soanic Architecture
What is Post‑Modernism
Language of Post Modern Architecture
The garden of cosmic speculation
Meaning in architecture
Adhocism
Modern Movements in Architecture
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic
The Iconic Building
The Universe in the Landscape: Landforms by Charles Jencks
Critical Modernism
The New Paradigm in Architecture
Heteropolis
Architecture Today
Towards a symbolic architecture
Late-modern architecture and other essays
Bizarre Architecture
The new moderns
Radical Post- Modernism
Architecture 2000 and Beyond
Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture
Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture
The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Kings of Infinite Space: Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves
Free-style Classicism
Daydream Houses of Los Angeles
Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods
Can Architecture Affect Your Health?
The Prince, the architects and new wave monarchy
Ecstatic architecture
Current architecture
Designing a House
Civic Builders
Post-modern Triumphs in London
The Scottish Parliament
Skyscrapers-- skyprickers--skycities
Postmodern Design Complete
Hunt the Symbol
Post- modernism & Discontinuity
Robert AM Stern: Selected Works
Mouvements modernes en architecture
The Riddle of John Soane: Deciphering the Enigma Code of Soanic Architecture
What is Post‑Modernism
Language of Post Modern Architecture
The garden of cosmic speculation
Meaning in architecture
Adhocism
Charles Jencks Life story
Charles Alexander Jencks was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as a theorist of Postmodernism.
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'I kept falling asleep in board meetings and then found out I had cancer'
Nov 6,2021 3:53 am
... After hearing this, Maggie and her husband Charles Jencks were moved to a windowless corridor where they were left to process the news...
Charles Jencks: The architect who made cancer care a work of art
Feb 16,2020 7:12 am
...Charles Jencks pictured with his late wife Maggie - both founders of Maggie s Centres Two minutes after Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie, were told her cancer had returned and she had months to live, the couple found themselves in a dark hospital corridor...