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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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Published by Academy Editions. Edited by Charles and Karl Kropf.
Includes the following chapters by Charles: The Volcano and the Tablet (introduction); Semiology and Architecture; Adhocism (with Nathan Silver); The Rise of Post Modern Architecture; Towards a Radical Eclecticism; 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture.
Inserted: handwritten fax from Madelon Vriesendorp to Sven Verbruggen titled 'Answer: What is the meaning of St. Jerome reading Rem Koolhaas'; handwritten fax from Madelon Vriesendorp to Charles enclosing the 'explanation I gave a thesis student from Belgium about the St Jerome picture'; typescript of fax paper titled 'Additions to the list of entires for 'Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture'; postcard advertising a symposium titled 'What Happened to the Architectural Manifesto?' to be held at Columbia University, 18 Nov 2011.
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