"Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on……" — Charles Jencks
"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 of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite."
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Charles Jencks
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16 Quotes by Charles Jencks
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What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones…
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
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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…
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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,…
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
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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.
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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
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Europe has been in my bones.
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine…
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain,…
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