Jencks' Cells of Life at Jupiter Artland, near Charles Alexander Jencks (born June 21, 1939) is a cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the. He has published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of.

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In recent years Jencks has devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. These landscapes include The Garden of Cosmic Speculation and Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. Sinnlos Im Weltraum Rapidshare. His continuing project The Crawick Multiverse, commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch, opened in 2015 near in Scotland.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Early years and family life [ ] Born in on June 21, 1939, Charles Alexander Jencks was the son of composer and. Jencks attended Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature at in 1961 and a degree in architecture from the in 1965. In 1965 Jencks moved to the where he now has houses in Scotland and London. In 1970 Jencks received a PhD in architectural history, studying under the radical modernist. This thesis was the source for his Modern Movements in Architecture (1973) which criticised the suppression of some Modernist variations. Jencks has two sons by his first marriage; one works as a landscape architect in Shanghai, while the other works for Jardines in Vietnam. He has two children by Maggie Keswick: John Jencks, a London-based filmmaker, married to Amy Agnew and Lily Clare Jencks, who in 2014 wed Roger Keeling.

Sarmisegetuza Ulpia Traiana Program Vizitare Programs there. Jencks married Louisa Lane Fox as his third wife in 2006, and is thus the stepfather of her son Henry Lane Fox and daughter. Architectural design [ ] Jencks' first architectural design was a studio in the woods, a cheap mass-produced garage structure of $5,000 – titled The Garagia Rotunda, where he spent part of the summers with his family. The ad hoc use of readymade materials was championed in his polemical text with Nathan Silver Adhocism – the Case for Improvisation in 1971 and 2013. Jencks' architectural designs experimented with ideas from. His London house was designed with Maggie Keswick and architects including and. Maggie's Centres [ ] After his second wife Maggie Keswick Jencks died in 1995, Jencks helped co-found and. Based on the notion of self-help and the fact that cancer patients are often involved in a long, drawn-out struggle, the Centres provide social and psychological help in an attractive setting next to large hospitals.

Their architecture, landscape, and art are designed to support both patients and caregivers and to give dignity to those who, in the past, often hid their disease. Maggie Keswick Jencks is the author of the book The Chinese Garden, on which her husband also worked. Landscape architecture and landforms [ ] Jencks switched to landscape design as a site for symbolic exploration when Maggie asked Charles to design in the family home and garden in Scotland.

The result in 2003, was, a series of twenty areas designed around various metaphors such as the DNA garden, Quark Walk, Fractal terrace and Comet Bridge. Further hybrid landforms and symbolic sculptures were built in Edinburgh, Milan, Long Island, Cambridge, Suncheon South Korea (with Lily Jencks), and other countries, some of which was published in The Universe in The Landscape, 2011. From 2010, Jencks started work on The Crawick Multiverse, a fifty-five acre site in southwest Scotland.

This project developed for Richard Buccleuch, opened in 2015. The Metaphysical Landscape, was an exhibition of sculpture at Jupiter Artland 2011.

Jencks later exhibited at the Merz Gallery, Sanquhar 2016. The, designed in part by Jencks and begun in 1988, was dedicated to Jencks' late wife Maggie Keswick Jencks. Jencks, his wife, scientists, and their friends designed the garden based on natural and scientific processes. Jencks' goal was to celebrate nature, but he also incorporated elements from the modern sciences into the design.