"What is the most interesting thing to people?…" — Charles Jencks
"What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people."
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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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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt…
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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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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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