With a lustrous, decades-long career as a landscape architect, designer, critic and theorist, Charles Jencks has been instrumental in questioning Modernism, defining Post-Modernism, and designing landscapes that merge sculptural forms with modern science and philosophy.

In 1970 Japanese architect Minoru Takeyama designed a building in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, simply called the Ni-Ban-Kahn (Building Number Two), while his Building Number One was located just a few metres away. This building gained wide notoriety thanks to American critic Charles Jencks, who put it on...

Charles Jencks and Buzz Yudell, The Elemental House, The California Pool, Santa Monica, California, 1980-1982

'cells of life' is a monumental, on-site land installation conceived by american artist charles jencks for jupiter artland.

As Scotland becomes one of the first countries to run solely on renewable energy, communities face the question of what to do with the country’s abandoned mining infrastructure. In one Scottish vil…

Image 51 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Image 1 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Image 32 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Jupiter Artland is one of Scotland’s most significant arts organisations, located just outside Edinburgh. It is set over 100 acres of woodland and meadows within the grounds of Bonnington House, a...

A Maggie's Centre, designed by Snøhetta, opened in Aberdeen, Scotland, on September 23. Architecture can’t cure cancer, but good design has the power to heal. That’s the philosophy behind Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, a network of drop-in facilities in Great Britain. The centers—17 and growing—are named for writer and landscape architect Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died of breast cancer in 1995. Married to the influential American architecture critic and landscape architect Charles Jencks, Maggie spent the last two years of her life conceiving a warm, inviting place where cancer patients could spend time learning how to cope with their disease

Image 1 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Image 33 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

As Scotland becomes one of the first countries to run solely on renewable energy, communities face the question of what to do with the country’s abandoned mining infrastructure. In one Scottish vil…

Jardin Sostenible was onlangs in Edinburgh en kon de tuin Scottisch National Gallery of Modern Art, ontworpen door Charles Jencks, niet missen. Jencks is tuinarchitect, historicus en criticus bekend vanwege de term postmodern architectuur (1977) d...

These pioneering green spaces make a brilliant alternative to the grounds of the same old stately homes

Charles Jencks' iconic postmodernist home in west London, Cosmic House, announces its reopening as a museum in September, featuring a new exhibition space. Deyan Sudjic – Wallpaper* contributing editor and director emeritus of London's Design Museum – recalls the house's storied past and previews its restoration

Shelter pups in Illinois are calmer and more relaxed now that they have donated chairs in their kennels.

Landscape architect Charles Jencks merges an interest in cosmology with a love of landscape design to create swirling, spiralling land sculptures. Weave your way through some of his cosmic creations

Completed in 2016 in Dumfries, United Kingdom. Images by Sergio Pirrone. This private house in Scotland is built within the existing stone ruins of an old farmhouse, with beautiful views northwards for more than 50 miles...

Image 21 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Eccentric, idiosyncratic, original. None of these adjectives does an adequate job of describing the Cosmic House — the London home of American-born architect, theorist and landscape artist Charles Jencks, who was a tireless vocal champion of postmodernism. Jencks died in 2019, and last fall, with little fanfare, his house opened to the public with limited […]

Image 5 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

I fell into a post modernist internet hole this afternoon when I ( slightly late to the party) discovered "The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture" exhibition at the John Soane's museum. Its on till the 27th of Aug 2018 and is free so there is still time to pop down i

Image 55 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Axo

Image 30 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks, Dumfries, Scotland.

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks, Dumfries, Scotland.

Image 38 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Image 21 of 21 from gallery of Pulsate / Lily Jencks + Nathanael Dorent. Plan & Section

Image 1 of 55 from gallery of Ruin Studio / Lily Jencks Studio + Nathanael Dorent Architecture. Photograph by Sergio Pirrone

Photograph by PAULUS MAXIMUS Once a year in May, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks is open to the public. The garden is located on a private residence known as the Po…

An American landscape designer and architect named Charles Jencks has created an amazing flight of stairs that is supposed to represent the cosmic evolution

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