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Charles Jencks
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British architect and author, active in London.
description
Wikipedia article
projects
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Park Jencks
-1999
- Keswick Farm - Architect's House
Keswick, Great Britain
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Parco Portello
2001
Milan, Italy
image list
address
- Great Britain
- country
- England
- state (first-order administrative division)
- Greater London
- ceremonial county
- Kensington and Chelsea
- city
- Kensington
- district
- Lansdowne Walk 19
- street
- +44 20 77278216
- phone
- +44 20 72211470
- fax
- http://www.charlesjencks.com
- website / homepage
publications
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- Ecstatic Architecture
The Surprising Link
C. Jencks, M. Toy
John Wiley & Sons; 1999
- Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
C. Jencks, K. Kropf
John Wiley & Sons; 1997
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Richard Meier
R. Meier, C. Jencks, K. Frampton
Academy Editions; 1990
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Toyo Ito
T. Ito, C. Jencks, M. Toy
Academy Editions; 1995
- Civic Builders
D. Lyndon, C. Jencks, C. W. Fentress, R. Campbell, J. M. Dixon, J. Dixon, C. Coker
Academy Editions; 2002
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Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture
C. Jencks
Harvard University Press; 1974
- Garden of Cosmic Speculation
C. Jencks
Frances Lincoln Limited; 2003
- Architecture Today
C. Jencks
Harry N. Abrams; 1988
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Daydream Houses of Los Angeles
C. Jencks
Rizzoli; 1978
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Language of Post-Modern Architecture
C. Jencks
Rizzoli; 1991
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Taller De Arquitectura
Ricardo Bofill
C. Jencks, P. Hodgkinson, P. Guedes
Architectural Association Publications; 1981
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Bizarre Architektur
Die Ikonographie des alternativen Bauens
C. Jencks
DVA; 1980
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Die Sprache der postmodernen Architektur
Entstehung und Entwicklung einer alternativen Tradition
C. Jencks
DVA; 1988
- Toyo Ito
T. Ito, C. Jencks, I. Schaarschmidt-Richter, I. S. Richter
Ernst & Sohn; 1995
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Post-Modernism and Discontinuity
C. Jencks, J. Dixon
Palgrave Macmillan; 1987
- Charles Platt
The Artist as Architect
C. Jencks, K. N. Morgan
MIT Press; 1985
- Wespennest 126. Architektur
Zeitschrift für brauchbare Texte und Bilder
P. Johnson, C. Jencks, G. Confurius, W. Famler
DVA; 2002
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Die Postmoderne
Der neue Klassizismus in Kunst und Architektur
C. Jencks
Klett-Cotta; 1988
- The Post-Modern Reader
C. Jencks
John Wiley & Sons; 1992
- Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture
Le Corbusier, C. Jencks
Monacelli Press; 2000
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Signs, Symbols and Architecture
C. Jencks, G. Broadbent, R. Bunt
John Wiley & Sons; 1980
- The Architecture of the Jumping Universe
A Polemic: How Complexity Science is Changing Architecture and Culture
C. Jencks
John Wiley & Sons; 1997
- The New Paradigm in Architecture
The Language of Postmodernism
C. Jencks
Yale University Press; 2002
- Informal
The Informal in Architecture and Engineering
R. Koolhaas, C. Jencks, C. Brensing, C. Balmond, J. Smith
Prestel Verlag; 2002
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Architektur heute
C. Jencks
Klett-Cotta; 1988
- Modern Movements in Architecture
C. Jencks
Penguin Books; 1987
- The New Paradigm in Architecture
The Language of Postmodernism
C. Jencks
Yale University Press; 2002
- What is Post-Modernism?
C. Jencks
John Wiley & Sons; 1996
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Post-Modernism
The New Classicism in Art and Architecture
C. Jencks
Rizzoli; 1987
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Wexner Center for the Visual Arts [Architectural Design Profile 82]
in: Architectural Design, 11-12/1989
P. Johnson, C. Jencks, R. Somol, K. W. Forster
page 1–80
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Peter Eisenman: an Architecture Design interview with Charles Jencks
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1988
C. Jencks
page 48–61
- interview
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Kisho Kurokawa 1978-1989
in: Space design, 6/1989,297
K. Kurokawa, C. Jencks
page 1–176
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Symbolism and blasphemesis
in: Art & design, 8/1985
C. Jencks
page 42–44
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Pop goes the pluriverse
in: Building Design, 1991,1057
C. Jencks
page 16–17
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The annual Architecture Forum [The New Moderns]
in: Architectural Design, 7-8/1990
D. Libeskind, K. Kurokawa, R. Meier, M. Wilford, O. Decq, C. Jencks, L. Krier, J. Steele, J. Glancey, G. Broadbent, P. Finch, C. Jameson
page 33–64
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Academy Forum: popular architecture
in: Architectural Design, 7-8/1992
R. A. M. Stern, J. Gowan, C. Jencks, G. Broadbent, T. Farrell, M. Fisher
page 24–48
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Caccia al simbolo | hunt the symbol
in: Domus, 1984,655
C. Jencks
page 44–47
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On the edge of content: Charles Jencks reviews Robert Stern's oeuvre
in: Skyline, 1982
C. Jencks
page 28–29
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The new modern aesthetic [Architectural design profile 86]
in: Architectural Design, 7-8/1990
D. Libeskind, C. Jencks, K. Frampton, M. Berman, A. Papadakes
page 1–32
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Meier and the modern tradition
in: Architectural Design, 9-10/1988
C. Jencks
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Shin Takamatsu: the Killing Moon, AA Members' Room and Bar, 28 April-21 May 1988
in: AA-Files, 1989,17
C. Jencks
page 100–104
- exhibition review
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Aphorisms on the garden of an aphorist
in: Art & design, 2/1986
C. Jencks
page 18–24
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Charles Jencks
in: A+U: extra edition, 1/1986
C. Jencks, M. Girouard, T. Nakamura
page 1–239
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Cathay in the West: pavilions and a Chinese garden in Bel Air, California
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1987
C. Jencks, M. Keswick
page 60–67
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Paternoster Square: a discussion between Leon Krier and Charles Jencks
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1988
C. Jencks, L. Krier
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The building as scenario: Elemental House, Los Angeles, California
in: Architectural Record, 9/1984
C. Jencks
page 118–125
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Elemental house, Rustic Canyon, California, 1980-82
in: GA houses, 1984,16
C. Jencks
page 96–103
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National Gallery - Sainsbury Wing: Robert Venturi, David Vaughan & Charles Jencks, an interview
in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1991
R. Venturi, C. Jencks, D. Vaughan
page 48–57
- interview
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Towards the perfected office
in: Architectural Design, 7-8/1992
C. Jencks
page 63–65
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House of elements in Rustic Canyon
in: The Architectural Review, 1984,1048
C. Jencks
page 62–69
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Britain's bad boy architect
in: Portfolio, 1/1981
C. Jencks
page 68–74
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Free style classicism: the wider tradition (Architectural Design profile 39)
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1982
C. Moore, O. M. Ungers, C. Jencks
page 1–120
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The Architecture of democracy: the Phoenix Municipal Government Center design competition (Architectural Design profile 69)
in: Architectural Design, 9-10/1987
C. Jencks, G. R. Plock, M. Valentine, E. C. Wundram
page 1–73
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Architecture: Michael Graves
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 5/1987
C. Jencks
page 138–145,234-235
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That Palladian feeling: there's nothing revivalist about Belgian architect Charles Vandenhove's way with nine-square organization
in: House & Garden, 6/1987
C. Jencks
page 160–165,226-227
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Epigrams on Philip Cortelyou Johnson (inspired by his writings)
in: Architectural Design, 8-9/1979
C. Jencks
page 235–238
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AD Profiles 16: Bruce Goff
in: Architectural Design, 10/1978
B. Goff, H. Greene, C. Jencks, D. G. De Long, J. Cook, L. March, S. Mooring, J. D. Price, J. Sergeant
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Frank Gehry: the deconstructionist
in: Art & design, 4/1985
C. Jencks
page 14–19
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Late modernism and post-modernism
in: Architectural Design, 11-12/1978
C. Jencks
page 593–609
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House on a hot pink roof
in: House & Garden, 11/1985
C. Jencks
page 192–201,236
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Architects' dialogue: Modernism, postmodernism and beyond, with Hans Hollein and Charles Jencks
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 4/1989
H. Hollein, C. Jencks
page 72–82
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Die Clore Gallery: Charles Jencks im Interview mit James Stirling
in: DBZ, 10/1987
J. Stirling, C. Jencks
page 1198–1201
- interview
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Edited transcripts of advanced theory/history seminar course held at Yale University
in: Yale seminars in architecture, 1981
M. Graves, R. Venturi, R. A. M. Stern, S. Tigerman, C. Jencks, K. Frampton, R. S. Weinstein
page 1–266,VI
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The Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection, Tate Gallery, London, 1980-84, architects: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1982
J. Stirling, C. Jencks
page 102–109
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Clore contextualisms
in: The Architectural Review, 1987,1084
C. Jencks
page 47–50
- interview
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Clore Gallery, London, England, 1987
in: A+U, 9/1987,204
J. Stirling, C. Jencks
page 11–46
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Landeszentralbank Hessen, Frankfurt, Albrecht Jourdan Müller & Berghof Landes Rang
in: Architectural Design, 11-12/1988
J. Jourdan, C. Jencks, W. Rang
page 76–91
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Mario Botta: Six projects; with commentaries by Charles Jencks
in: Architectural Design, 9-10/1983
C. Jencks
page 70–85
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Post-modern mosque: Islamic cultural centre of Italy and Roman mosque; architects: Paolo Portoghesi, Vittorio Gigliotti and Sami Mousawa
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1980
C. Jencks
page 24–29
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The presence of the past, The international architecture exhibition from the 1980 Venice Biennale in San Francisco
in: Archetype, 1/1982
P. Portoghesi, C. Jencks, K. Frampton, J. Gittelsohn, P. Robertson, B. Sfasata, K. A. Thayer
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Prince Charles and the architectural debate [Architectural Design profile 79]
in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1989
R. Rogers, C. Jencks, S. Jenkins, M. Manser, A. Sampson
page 1–70
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The thematic house: symbolic or signolic architecture?
in: Art & design, 9/1985
C. Jencks
page 14–17,48
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Architecture: Charles Jencks & Buzz Yudell
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 11/1983
C. Jencks
page 106–113,202
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Post-modernism between Kitsch and culture
in: Architectural Design, 9-10/1990
C. Jencks
page 24–37
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Pragmatic classicism: recent works of Terrence Farrell
in: Domus, 1981,619
C. Jencks
page 12–21
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Broadgate - The city in the city
in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1991
C. Jencks
page 46–47
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In the steps of Vasari: Charles Jencks interviews Heinrich Klotz
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1985
C. Jencks, H. Klotz
page 8–16
- interview
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[Orders of architecture]
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1982
C. Jencks
page 110–120
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The aesthetics of engineering: Charles Jencks interviews Jack Zunz
in: Architectural Design, 11-12/1987
C. Jencks, J. Zunz
page 36–48
- interview
- Die Architektur der Dekonstruktion
in: arch+: de-construction, 1988,96/97
C. Jencks
page 24–49
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Los Angeles now: 29 April-29 May, 1983: LA style - LA school
in: AA-Files, 1984,5
C. Jencks
page 90–93
- exhibition review
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The new moderns
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1990
C. Jencks
page 6–18
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Contemporary British architecture: diverse traditions reflect a healthy pluralism
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 11/1991
C. Jencks
page 92–104
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The tradition of Post-Modern architecture
in: Inland architect, 12/1977
C. Jencks
page 6–15
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Deconstruction in architecture (Architectural Design profile 72)
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1988
C. Jencks
page 1–81
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Don't panic
in: The Architectural Review, 1978,972
C. Jencks
page 83–85
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Exquisite corpse [by] Michael Sorkin
in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1992
C. Jencks
- book review
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Una mostra di Ben Johnson a Londra
in: Domus, 1987,680
C. Jencks
page 11
- exhibition review
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The presence of the past
in: Domus, 1980,610
C. Jencks, V. Scully Jr., R. Barilli, M. L. Scalvini, M. D. Bardeschi
page 9–31
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The casual, the shocking and the well ordered Acropolis: a review of James Stirling's new Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1984
C. Jencks
page 48–55
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Landeszentralbank Hessen in Frankfurt
in: A+U, 6/1989,225
C. Jencks
page 15–54
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What Martin Pawley really said
in: Building Design, 1989,961
C. Jencks, M. Pawley
page 24–25
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Post-modern triumphs in London [Architectural Design Profile 91]
in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1991
C. Jencks, K. Powell
page 1–90
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Urban concepts [Architectural design profile 83]
in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1990
D. Scott Brown, C. Jencks, K. Powell, M. Pawley, J. Brown, S. Jenkins, J. Thompson, R. Thorne
page 1–96
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The critical crisis: Charles Jencks reviews Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture
in: Art & design, 7/1985
C. Jencks
page 21
- book review
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Signs of the times
in: Building Design, 1989,919
C. Jencks
page 24–26
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Deconstruction: the pleasures of absence
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1988
C. Jencks
page 16–31
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The Thematic house: the design process
in: Architectural Design, 9-10/1985
C. Jencks
page 10–47
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Star-struck house, Post-Modern critic and architect Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie Keswick, convert a London terrace house into a visual tour de force
in: House & Garden, 4/1985
C. Jencks
page 112–127,202-207
- Unterhaltungsarchitektur
in: arch+: Das Amerikanische Zeitalter, 1992,114/115
C. Jencks
page 111–113
reference
- The New Paradigm in Architecture
The Language of Postmodernism
C. Jencks
Yale University Press; 2002
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Jencks welcomes pluralist approach in architecture
in: Building Design, 1988,891
L. Mallett
page 8
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Charles Jencks i Stavanger: refleksjoner etter et mote med »postmodernismens far«
in: Byggekunst, 1/1985
O. Vedelden
page 59–61
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The super-modern defence: an open letter to Charles Jencks
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1990
C. Jameson
page 26–33
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AD Profile 16: Bruce Goff
in: Architectural Design, 10/1978
J. Sergeant
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Charles Jencks and Kurt Andersen on the postmodern legacy
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 13/1990
K. Andersen
page 31–40
- interview
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Beyond Post-Modernism: An interview between Charles Jencks and Yasumitsu Matsunaga
in: Japan Architect (JA), 3/1985,335
Y. Matsunaga
page 10–15
- interview
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Het symbolische Post-modernisme van Charles Jencks
in: Architect, 12/1987
E. Koster
page 30–35
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Der Ruf nach Ordnung: Charles Jencks und die Postmoderne
in: Archithese, 3/1988
E. Birkett, R. Serjeant
page 23–25
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Post-moderno: si chiude?: Bruno Zevi, Charles Jencks
in: Modo, 1986,94
page 18–21
- interview
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Architecture: Charles Jencks & Buzz Yudell
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 11/1983
C. Jencks
page 106–113,202
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Post-Modern Classicism - the synthesis: an interview with Charles Jencks
in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1984
N. Baxter, A. Papadakes
page 61–63
- interview
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Charles Jencks
in: A+U: extra edition, 1/1986
C. Jencks, M. Girouard, T. Nakamura
page 1–239
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April 2, 2008
- World Architecture Festival Award call for entriesDetail 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 …
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