Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate… — 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
