Attitude 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... Charles Jencks 27
Architecture Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what... Charles Jencks 31
Architecture I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. Charles Jencks 29
Architecture I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece... Charles Jencks 36
Architecture 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... Charles Jencks 26
Architecture 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... Charles Jencks 32
Beauty The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as... Charles Jencks 33
Dating If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's... Charles Jencks 18
