Charles Jencks

Charles Alexander Jencks ( born 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is an American architect and architectural theorist.

Life

Charles Jencks studied English literature at Harvard University, then in 1965 he made his master's degree in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He took a PhD at University College London.

Work

He took on the circulating in the humanities, and literature term postmodernism and transferred it to the architecture.

His theories of cosmogony and the theory of chaos processed Jencks very clearly in his Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries in southern Scotland. Together with his wife Maggie Keswick, a renowned expert on the history of Chinese garden architecture, Charles Jencks developed about 120 acres of impressive gardens with elegant earth formations, reminiscent of works by the American Land Art. Maggie Keswick died in 1995 from cancer, but the Garden of Cosmic Speculation continues to evolve under Jencks ' Director on. Charles Jencks founded according to an idea of his wife after her death, a chain of counseling and support centers for cancer patients (Maggie 's Centre ), each with a different architecture that characterized Hugh Pearman ". Each is different and some are extraordinary"

His most influential book is The Language of Post-Modern Architecture which was published by Andreas Papadakis 1977. The German title is: The language of postmodern architecture. The emergence of an alternative tradition, Stuttgart 1978.