“Can’t you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?” the late Charles Jencks implored to Kirsty Young while being interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. That was back in 2012, when ...

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been named the winners of the 2015 RIBA Charles Jencks Award, an annual prize named for British architect and critic Charles Jencks recognizing “major ...

It’s more than 35 years since Charles Jencks – the critic credited with the briefly shocking idea that modern architecture was dead, and then with popularising postmodernism – first opened the door of ...

It all started with a swimming hole. In 1988, Maggie Keswick, the wife of noted architect and designer Charles Jencks, had a swamp dug up on her family s Scottish estate to create a place for their ...

In the late 1960s and ‘70s modernism was becoming moribund and reductivist. “The orthodoxy of high modernism was still very strong and it was very cold and very isolated to the general public,” says ...

Unlike architecture, which requires solidity to provide shelter over time regardless of style, landscaped gardens are ephemeral by nature. They may possess a degree of flamboyancy and fantasy ...

Celebrating 30 years of the distinctive Maggie’s Centres for cancer care, this exhibition highlights the healing power of buildings and what good architects can achieve with a clear brief and an ...

American-born cultural theorist, architect, and landscape designer Charles Jencks died in his home in London on October 13. He was 80 years old. Robert A.M. Stern, Paul Goldberger, and George Baird ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If Mike Davis’ seminal ‘City of Quartz,’ which we encountered last month ...

The architecture writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, who died earlier this week aged 80, was one of those rare theorists who put their ideas into concrete action. Born in Baltimore in 1939, ...