Charles Jencks Quotes

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• What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several…
• The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.…
• In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
• 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…
• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact…
• Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
• I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
• A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
• What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
• Europe has been in my bones.
• Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running…
• Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we…
• The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become…
• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos,…
• I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

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