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 - you can't help but be moved. — 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
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
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share
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
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe? — Charles Jencks Copy Share
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm. — Charles Jencks Copy Share
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
“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
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
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. — Charles Jencks Copy Share
“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general public, are… — Charles Jencks Copy Share
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to compromise with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share
