Landscape ArchitectsCharles Jencks

Debating Fundamentals: Probing the Autopoiesis of Architecture – Part 7 – Charles Jencks

Lecture date: 2011-03-11 AA Symposium Participants: Patrik Schumacher, Jeff Kipnis, Lars Spuybroek, Charles Jencks, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf D Prix, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Mark Wigley,...

Charles Jencks: Constructivism (May 17, 1976)

After a brief introduction, Charles Jencks begins by arguing how Russian Constructivism began, matured and evolved from the 1905 Russian Revolution, through the October...

Charles Jencks: The Language of modern architecture (June 6, 1976)

Charles Jencks discusses the roles of linguistics and syntax in modern, [ost-modern, and art nouveau architecture. He traces a formal, semantic and social history...

Charles Jencks – Ecstatic Architecture

Lecture date: 1999-05-18 Charles Jencks tracks the broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - in part motivated by pure architectural ideas...

Charles Jencks: Recent Italian & Japanese architecture (June 24, 1976)

Charles Jencks discusses how recent Italian movements are inspired by an eclectic collage of revival techniques. Jencks touches on the history of Domus and...

Charles Jencks: New British architecture (May 19, 1976)

Charles Jencks introduces his lecture by describing his infamous diagram that describes and predicts architectural trends of the past and future. He also shows...

Charles Jencks: New Japanese architecture / Architecture as language (May 28, 1976)

This video contains two different lectures by Charles Jencks: the first on contemporary Japanese architecture, the second (at 51:00) on the language of modern...

Interview Marathon 2006: Charles Jencks

Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich...

Charles Jencks and Alejandro Zaera-Polo compare diagrams

In his 2016 essay “Well into the 21st Century,” Alejandro Zaera-Polo attempted to define and categorize new forms of practice that have emerged in...