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Person
Artist
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Person
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Person
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1946-
Artist
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1983-
Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers
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Person
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1946-
Architect.
Piers Gough designed the Dome of Water, an upturned dome loosely inspired by Francesco Borromini’s dome for the baroque church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome. His practice also designed the Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre at Nottingham City Hospital.
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Person
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1943-
British Member of Parliament between 1979-1997and Patron of the British Sundial Society.
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1988-
Research Centre in Pune, India
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Person
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1941-1995
Maggie Keswick Jencks, Charles Jencks’ wife and collaborator, was a Scottish writer, artist and garden designer. She collaborated on the design of The Cosmic House and helped shape the intellectual life that unfolded there until her untimely death in… read more
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Person
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1939-2019
Charles Jencks was born on 21 June 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Gardner Jencks, a pianist and composer, and Ruth (nee DeWitt Pearl). He took at BA in English Literature at Harvard University (1961) and then a BA and MA at Harvard… read more
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1996-
In 1988 Charles Jencks second wife, Maggie Keswick Jencks, was diagnosed with breast cancer. It returned in 1993 and the following year Maggie wrote *A View from the Front Line* about her own experience of diagnosis and treatment and started working on… read more