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Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Dates of existence
1939-2019
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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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Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust (1996-)
Identifier of related entity
AR00021
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associative
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RIBA Charles Jencks Award (1992-)
Identifier of related entity
AR00302
Category of relationship
associative
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RIBA Charles Jencks Award is the client of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Jencks, Lily (1980-)
Identifier of related entity
AR00004
Category of relationship
family
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Jencks, Lily is the child of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Jencks, John
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AR00003
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family
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Jencks, John is the child of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Jencks, Gardner Platt (1907-1989)
Identifier of related entity
AR00327
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family
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Jencks, Gardner Platt is the parent of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Pearl, Ruth DeWitt (1907-1992)
Identifier of related entity
AR00328
Category of relationship
family
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Pearl, Ruth DeWitt is the parent of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Jencks, Penelope (1936-)
Identifier of related entity
AR00011
Category of relationship
family
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Jencks, Penelope is the sibling of Jencks, Charles Alexander
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Keswick Jencks, Maggie (1941-1995)
Identifier of related entity
AR00002
Category of relationship
family
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Keswick Jencks, Maggie is the spouse of Jencks, Charles Alexander
Dates of relationship
1978-1995
Description of relationship
Maggie Keswick married Charles Jencks in 1978 as his second wife. They remained together until her death in 1995. They had two children, John and Lily Jencks.
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JencksSquared (2010-2022)
Identifier of related entity
AR00006
Category of relationship
hierarchical
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JencksSquared is owned by Jencks, Charles Alexander
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AR00001