Quote of the day
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Jencks
Born: June 21, 1939
Died: October 13, 2019 (aged 80)
Bio: Charles Alexander Jencks was a cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of Postmodernism.
Known for:
- Language of Post Modern Architecture (1977)
- The garden of cosmic speculation (2003)
- What is Post-Modernism (1986)
- Adhocism (1972)