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Charles Jencks

1939 - 2019

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Charles Alexander Jencks (June 21, 1939 – October 13, 2019) was an American 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 a theorist of postmodernism. Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. These landscapes include the Garden of Cosmic Speculation and earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Jencks is the 344th most popular architect (down from 308th in 2019), the 5,488th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,193rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Architect.

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Among architects, Charles Jencks ranks 344 out of 518. Before him are Willem Marinus Dudok, Girolamo Cassar, Michael Graves, Francesco Sabatini, Vannoccio Biringuccio, and Frederick Law Olmsted. After him are Diébédo Francis Kéré, Lipót Baumhorn, Laurynas Gucevičius, Christopher Alexander, Benedetto Antelami, and Henning Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Charles Jencks ranks 292. Before him are Alberto Festa, Tom Thabane, Merab Kostava, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Janusz Gajos, and Ljiljana Petrović. After him are Peter Mayle, Mike Castle, Roy Buchanan, James Galway, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, and Renate Boy. Among people deceased in 2019, Charles Jencks ranks 244. Before him are Ivan Dimitrov, Jan Olszewski, Gloria Vanderbilt, Vojtěch Jasný, Don Alden Adams, and Jean-Pierre Mocky. After him are Jurica Jerković, Ari Behn, Martin Peters, Dick Miller, Alain Barrière, and Michael Gielen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 5,488 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Ferrero (1947), Carol Burnett (1933), Allen Stack (1928), Clayton Christensen (1952), Melinda Culea (1955), and Yaki Kadafi (1977). After him are Robert Herman (1914), William R. Orthwein (1881), Charles E. Brady Jr. (1951), Noah Beery Jr. (1913), Jorja Fox (1968), and Hal Moore (1922).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 21. Before him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Steven Holl (1947), Thom Mayne (1944), Michael Graves (1934), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822). After him are Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), and Robert Moses (1888).

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