Charles Jencks
American architecture theorist, critic and landscape architect (1939-2019) · United States · On the map · Architects · Died at 80
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.
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Black Hole in the Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Cells of Life, a landform at Jupiter Artland
Stone rows on the 'North-South Line' at the Crawick Multiverse
Landform, in the gardens of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Willowtwist, an aluminium sculpture in the Garden of Cosmic SpeculationAbout this person
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.
