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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 several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

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Charles Jencks

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:
  1. Language of Post Modern Architecture (1977)
  2. The garden of cosmic speculation (2003)
  3. What is Post-Modernism (1986)
  4. Adhocism (1972)

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