Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. Charles Jencks architecturederexplain Change image and share on social
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. Charles Jencks complexhouseliner Change image and share on social
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts. Charles Jencks backbonebottombuild share on social
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 or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. Charles Jencks architecturebranchcheaply share on social
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. Charles Jencks attitudebeautyconfidence Change image and share on social
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live. Charles Jencks cancerdeeplydig Change image and share on social