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“A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.”

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Charles Jencks, born on June 21, 1939, is a renowned landscape architect of Scottish origin. His work is globally recognized for its unique style and profound understanding of the natural environment. more

“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 why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.”

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“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 about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Seems Certain Attitude Knowing Goodness Be Confident Dogmatic Fly Away Truth Love

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“Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.”

Running Sides Numbers Picks Extraordinary Bottom Scales Proportion Centre Ratios Spirals Recurring Sunflower Cones Pineapples

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“The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.”

Helping Body Cities Six Mad Moved Productions Cells Centre

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“I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.”

Men Real Wife Lucky Tragedy Cancer My Wife Maggie Lucky Man

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“But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.”

Should Believe Art Should Have Driven Architecture Sensational

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“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.”

Ifs Looks Self Tree Computer Method Productions Architecture Complexity Branches Repetition Leafs Variation Similarity Tree Branches

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“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.”

Knows Writing Ideas Might Turns Models Standards Enlightenment Fossils Multiverse

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“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.”

Ifs Thinking Want Patient Cancer Cancer Patients

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“What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.”

People Interesting Most Interesting Interesting Things

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