Charles Jencks (1939–2019)

Author of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture

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About the Author

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Charles Jencks, Charles Jencks, Charles A. Jencks, ed [Architectural Design] Charles Jencks

Works by Charles Jencks

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The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) 229 copies

Modern Movements in Architecture (1973) 205 copies, 1 review

What is Post-Modernism? (1986) 112 copies

Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (1973) 93 copies

Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (1997) 80 copies, 1 review

Architecture today (1982) 71 copies

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (2003) 70 copies, 1 review

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic : How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture (1995) 53 copies

Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (1972) 50 copies, 1 review

The Post-Modern Reader (1992) 49 copies, 1 review

Post-Modernism (1987) 43 copies

Iconic Building (2005) 43 copies, 2 reviews

Bizarre Architecture (1979) 41 copies

Daydream Houses of Los Angeles (1978) 39 copies

Architecture 2000; predictions and methods (1971) 39 copies

Late-modern architecture and other essays (1980) 38 copies, 1 review

Skyscrapers--skyprickers--skycities (1980) 29 copies

Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture (1999) 29 copies

The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture (2011) 28 copies, 1 review

Kings of Infinite Space: Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves (1983) 27 copies

The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism (2002) 27 copies

Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the '80s (2004) 25 copies

Post-modern classicism : the new synthesis (1980) — Editor — 24 copies

New Moderns (1990) 24 copies

Heteropolis (1993) 24 copies

Free-Style Classicism (Architectural Design Profile) (1982) — Editor — 24 copies

The Prince, The Architects and New Wave Monarchy (1988) 22 copies

The Universe in the Landscape: Landforms by Charles Jencks (2011) 20 copies

Meaning in architecture (1969) 18 copies, 1 review

Frank O. Gehry: Individual Imagination and Cultural Conservatism (1995) — Editor — 17 copies

Towards A Symbolic Architecture (1985) 17 copies

The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres (2010) 14 copies, 4 reviews

Abstract representation (Architectural design profile) (1983) 14 copies

Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going What is Post-Modernism (2007) 13 copies

The Architecture of Democracy: The Phoenix Municipal Government Center Design Competition (Architectural Design Profile) (1987) 13 copies

Art Spaces: Scottish Parliament (2005) 12 copies

Robert AM Stern: Selected Works (Architectural Monographs No 17) (1991) 11 copies

Post-Modern Triumphs in London (Architectural Design (Wiley)) (1991) 10 copies, 1 review

Log 24 (2012) 10 copies

Le Corbusier & The Architecture of Reinvention (Architecture Landscape Urbanism) (2004) 8 copies

Current Architecture (1982) 8 copies

Radical Post-Modernism: Architectural Design (2011) 8 copies

Ecstatic Architecture: The Surprising Link (1999) 8 copies

Architecture 2000 and Beyond (2000) 7 copies

New Science = New Architecture? (1997) 6 copies, 1 review

New Chicago Architecture (1982) 5 copies

Designing a house (1986) 4 copies

Toyo Ito (1995) 3 copies

Architecture and Urbanism: Charles Jencks 1 copy

A+U January 1986 Extra Edition: Charles Jencks (1986) 1 copy

Movimentos Modernos em Arquitectura Livro 1 1 copy

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts: Philip Johnson, Charles Jencks, and Others Examine Peter Eisenman's "Deconstructionist Tour De Force." (1990) 1 copy

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Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present (2003) — Contributor — 330 copies, 3 reviews

The Chinese garden : History, art and architecture (1978) — Contributor, some editions — 134 copies, 1 review

New Classicism (1990) — Contributor — 32 copies

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