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# Charles Jencks

(1939–2019)   Architect

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Charles Jencks was an architect, best known for *The language of post-modern architecture*.

## Quick Facts About Charles Jencks

Born June 21, 1939

Died October 13, 2019

Profession Architect

Notable works The language of post-modern architecture

## About Charles Jencks

Charles Alexander Jencks was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as a theorist of postmodernism. Jencks identified himself as "a critic who architects" and experimented with his theories through built work including his own home, The Cosmic House. Jencks also devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. These landscapes include the Garden of Cosmic Speculation and earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. His continuing project Crawick Multiverse, commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch, opened in 2015 near Sanquhar.

##  Quotes by Charles Jencks

> [Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/cant-you-see-we-are-in-a-dialogue-with-the-universe/)

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> [If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/if-you-can-t-take-the-kitsch-get-out-of-the-kitchen/)

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> [Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/can-t-you-see-we-are-in-a-dialogue-with-the-universe/)

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> [Europe has been in my bones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/europe-has-been-in-my-bones/)

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> [It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/it-s-a-mark-of-any-icon-that-it-should-be-open-to-iconoclasm/)

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> [I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-think-any-cancer-patient-if-you-dig-not-too-deeply-they-want-to-live/)

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> [What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/what-is-the-most-interesting-thing-to-people-other-people/)

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> [In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/in-1979-postmodernism-lost-its-understanding-of-the-meaning-of/)

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> [What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/what-is-a-garden-if-not-a-miniaturization-and-celebration-of-the/)

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> [A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/a-sign-to-me-is-a-one-liner-a-symbol-is-very-complex-and-my-house-is/)

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> [I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-ve-been-a-lucky-man-i-ve-only-faced-one-real-tragedy-the-death-of/)

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> [Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/beautiful-people-are-always-with-us-as-evolutionary-psychologists-and/)

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> [The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-rule-seems-to-be-that-there-are-no-absolutes-that-what-is-rare-is/)

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> [I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-do-believe-architecture-and-all-art-should-be-content-driven-it/)

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> [A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/a-placebo-is-a-phony-cure-that-works-this-is-very-hard-for-the/)

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> [“Like politicians, they may pretend to be in charge and shape society – this is a large part of their hope and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/like-politicians-they-may-pretend-to-be-in-charge-and-shape-society/)

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> [Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/modern-architecture-died-in-st-louis-missouri-on-july-15-1972-at-3-32/)

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> [Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/like-our-attitude-to-love-truth-and-goodness-we-seem-to-be-confident/)

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> [The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-cell-is-a-city-of-production-centres-each-part-working-away-like/)

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> [Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/mies-van-der-rohe-s-architecture-and-modern-architecture-in-general/)

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> [You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/you-know-darwin-said-through-natural-selection-things-go-gradually/)

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> [“There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/there-is-an-unalterable-and-widening-gap-between-exterior-and/)

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> [I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-was-already-writing-about-the-idea-of-a-multiverse-in-the-1970s/)

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> [If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/if-you-look-at-gothic-detailing-right-down-to-the-bottom-of-a-column/)

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> [I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-d-been-to-stourhead-and-was-inspired-by-the-perfect-parity-between/)

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> [You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/you-have-to-believe-in-a-placebo-or-it-won-t-work-but-if-it-works-it/)

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> [Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/pick-up-a-sunflower-and-count-the-florets-running-into-its-centre-or/)

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> [If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/if-you-look-at-any-leaf-on-any-tree-branch-it-s-similar-to-but-not/)

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> [Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/post-modern-space-is-historically-specific-rooted-in-conventions/)

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> [“the philosopher Karl Popper and his ally Ernst Gombrich, wrote many critiques of the zeitgeist and argued that although there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-philosopher-karl-popper-and-his-ally-ernst-gombrich-wrote-many/)

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> [“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/a-recurrent-theme-of-this-book-is-that-architects-fairly-low-in-the/)

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> [The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-singular-point-of-beautiful-objects-and-people-is-that-they-are/)

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> [Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/science-is-a-victim-of-its-own-reductive-metaphors-big-bang-selfish/)

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> [You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/you-have-to-believe-in-a-placebo-or-it-wont-work-but-if-it-works-its/)

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> [“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/whereas-art-critics-are-ready-to-accept-indeed-are-looking-for-the/)

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