Full Name: Jencks, Charles
Gender: male
Date Born: 1939
Place Born: Baltimore, Baltimore Independent City, MD, USA
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Postmodern, and sculpture (visual works)
Institution(s): University College London
Overview
Architectural historian; coiner of the term “post-modernism” for architecture. Jencks studied under Reyner Banham.
Selected Bibliography
and Baird, George, editors. Meaning in Architecture. London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1969; and Bunt, Richard, and Broadbent, Geoffrey, editors. Signs, Symbols and Architecture. New York: Wiley, 1980.
Sources
KRG, 109 mentioned
Contributors: Lee Sorensen