“But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.” ShouldBelieveArtShould HaveDrivenArchitectureSensational Author: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.” IfsLooksSelfTreeComputerMethodProductionsArchitectureComplexityBranchesRepetitionLeafsVariationSimilarityTree Branches Author:Charles Jencks
“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 called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.” ShouldArtFactsArtistPerfectPiecesCarInspiredArchitectureParksSiteSculptureArchitecture And ArtParityCar Parks Author:Charles Jencks
“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 several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.” GivenGraceModernDiedFinalsArchitectureBlockSchemesJulyInfamousDynamiteMissouriCoupsModern ArchitectureSlabs Book:The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture Source: The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
