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Tribute to Charles Jencks - 15 October 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
The US-born architectural theorist, historian and landscape designer Charles Jencks passed away on Sunday 13 October. Jencks wrote more than 30 books, including The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) in which he declared the time of death for all of capital-M Modern Architecture. ‘Boom, boom, boom’ he wrote.
He lectured at more than 40 universities and worked on many landscape architecture projects, such as the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh, and the so-called Lady of the North, a 400m-long land-sculpture near Cramlington, Northumberland. In 1995, with his late wife, Maggie Keswick, he set up the Maggie’s cancer care trust. The organisation has built nearly 20 cancer care drop-in centres with some of the world’s leading architects.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Tribute to Charles Jencks - 15 October 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
The US-born architectural theorist, historian and landscape designer Charles Jencks passed away on Sunday 13 October. Jencks wrote more than 30 books, including The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) in which he declared the time of death for all of capital-M Modern Architecture. ‘Boom, boom, boom’ he wrote.
He lectured at more than 40 universities and worked on many landscape architecture projects, such as the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh, and the so-called Lady of the North, a 400m-long land-sculpture near Cramlington, Northumberland. In 1995, with his late wife, Maggie Keswick, he set up the Maggie’s cancer care trust. The organisation has built nearly 20 cancer care drop-in centres with some of the world’s leading architects.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)