AR00921
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1972-
Founded by Michael Brickler, Thom Mayne, Livio Santini and James Stafford. Michael Rotondi joined the practice in 1975 and remained a principal until 1991.
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1943-
Architect
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1939-
Architect
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1881-
Newspaper
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1926-2019
Architectural historian
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1956-
Architectural historian and critic
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1940-2012
Architect
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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 Graduate School of Design (1965) He received a PhD from London University in 1970 for his thesis "Modern architecture: the tradition since 1945" which led to a series of articles in Arena and to the publication Modern Movements in Architecture (1972). From 1961 to 1973 he was married to Pamela Balding and had two sons, Justin and Cosmo. He married Maggie Keswick Jencks and had two children, John and Lily. Maggie died in 1995. In 2006 he married Louisa Lane Fox . He died on 13 October 2019.
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19201-995
Published as Pencil Points 1920-1945. American architecture magazine
AR00892
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1951-
Founded as the California Museum of Science & Industry; renamed in 1998.