Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Jencks, Charles
Gender
Date Born
1939
Place Born
Home Country
Institution
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
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