Home >> Arts >> Architecture >> Famous Names >> J >> Jencks, Charles Charles Jencks, born 1939 in Baltimore is an architect & architectural theoretician, notable for his writings in postmodern architecture. Although non inventing a term, his 1977 book The Language of Postmodern Architecture is typically regarded when with popularised its apply. Around Edinburgh, Scotland, he designed a Landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. His late married woman, Maggie Keswick Jencks was the founder of the Maggie's cancer caring centres. Charles Jencks The official site includes a full CV of this designer of buildings, landscape and sculpture, who is also an architectural historian known for his books questioning Modern architecture and defining its successors. Architecture Profile: Charles Jencks Michael Cathcart talks to Charles Jencks about his view that there has been a paradigm shift in contemporary architecture. The simple brute forms of Modernism have had their day he says. 24 Hour Museum: Charles Jencks' Landform Wins £100,000 Gulbenkian Museum Prize The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art won the 2004 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year for Charles Jencks' dramatic and radical landscaping project, Landform.
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