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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by Charles Jencks Jencks' Landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Jencks' Life Mounds at Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh Charles Alexander Jencks (born June 21, 1939) is an American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner... Read full biography of Charles Jencks → 1 2 Ctrl → I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. 0 Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather... → 0 If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity... → 0 You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting... → 0 The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.... → 0 Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom... → 0 You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the... → 0 Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? 0 In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. 0 The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. 0 If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen. 0 It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm. 0 A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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