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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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Publications by Charles
- NT Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
- NT Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods
- NT Architecture Today
- NT Critical Modernism
- NT Draft texts and manuscripts
- NT Essays, articles and reviews (published)
- NT Heteropolis: Los Angeles, The Riots and The Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture
- NT Interviews
- NT Kings of Infinite Space: Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves
- NT Late-Modern Architecture and other essays
- NT Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture
- NT Le Corbusier And the Tragic View of Architecture
- NT Letters to the editor
- NT Meaning in Architecture
- NT Modern Movements in Architecture
- NT PhD
- NT Post-Modernism: The new classicism in Art and Architecture
- NT Talks, lectures and conference papers
- NT The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
- NT The Architecture of the Jumping Universe
- NT The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
- NT The Iconic Building
- NT The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
- NT The New Moderns
- NT The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modernism
- NT The Story of Post-Modernism
- NT The Universe in the Landscape
- NT Towards a Symbolic Architecture
- NT What is Post-Modernism?
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Publications by Charles
- UF Books