If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe? — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body -… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making the environment… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
