[register] [login] [selection (0)] [desktop] [english]

Charles Jencks

  • search
google.com
  • news archive about «Charles Jencks»
 
April 2, 2008
  • World Architecture Festival Award – call for entries
    Detail Online – news
    The World Architecture Festival is one of this year's biggest architectural events, which will take place from 22-24 October in Barcelona. As part of the festival a prestigious architectural award opens for entries on April 15, the deadline being 20 …
March 31, 2008
  • Charles Jencks, Strange Attractor
    After the lecture by Charles Jencks, delivered at the NAi Maastricht on March 13, a former student of Delft University of Technology asked me if a snapshot was taken of Jencks. 'He is an icon', she continued. 'Twenty years ago it was all theory, and look what he does now!'
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    In this article, I try to take seriously Jencks’s remark that culture should find an iconographic language to connect us to the universe. Jencks’s lectures, answers and gardens seem to resemble the cosmos when it comes to beginnings, centres and ends…
February 2, 2006
  • Rem Koolhaas in the Berlage
    On February 7 in a packed Berlage Institute - it's about time they got round to making a decent lecture theatre there - Rem Koolhaas delivered the final lecture in the Projective Theory series that started with Peter Eisenman on October 11 last year.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Given that Koolhaas thinks of the Berlage as his back garden, we weren't in for a real presentation but simply some 'collected material'. It began in very serious fashion. Who starts a lecture by showing a picture of the Parthenon? He does. It turned…
July 3, 2000
  • The Politics of Restoration
    On Sunday May 14 the Balie in Amsterdam held a conference about the master plan for the village of Lifta near Jerusalem. The title of the conference was Reconstruction of Memory. Micha de Haas reports.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    'A friend of my mother used to live in this house. Hanging from the windowsills of her lovely house were the most beautiful flowerpots. As children we often secretly tried to pick the flowers, but she always saw us and said, »Carry these bags upstair…
January 7, 2000
  • OMA Designs New Headquarters for Central Chinese Television Giant CCTV in Beijing
    There were already some rumours but now it is officially announced, OMA will build the new headquarters for the big Chinese television co-operation CCTV in Beijing.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    CCTV's new 550,000 m2 headquarters will be completed for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The total construction cost is estimated at 600 million euro. The CCTV headquarters will be one of the first European skyscrapers to be built in China. Out of ten …
  • external links
 
  • [wikipedia]
    entry at Wikipedia

    open source encyclopedia
  • [Dictionary of Art Historians]link to Dictionary of Art Historians >>
    online encyclopdedia of the American Art Historian Society
  • [archplus]further articles of this author in archplus magazine >>
    archive of architecture magazine archplus
  • [German National Library]entry at the German National Library >>
    list of related literature
  • [book search]
    Search in

    online available publications about «Charles Jencks»
  • [RIBA Library]literature search on «Charles Jencks» >>
    RIBA Library catalog
  • screenshot
    home page >>