Charles Jencks Quotes
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Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
— Charles Jencks
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
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.
— Charles Jencks
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
— Charles Jencks
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
“It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.”
— Charles Jencks
“If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.”
— Charles Jencks
“Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?”
— Charles Jencks
“What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.”
— Charles Jencks
“A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.”
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— Charles Jencks
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.
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The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
— Charles Jencks
Europe has been in my bones.
— Charles Jencks
“What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?”
— Charles Jencks
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole ... ... . ... skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective ... . ... always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage
— Charles Jencks
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