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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.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Blocks Coup Died Dynamite Final Given Grace Infamous July Louis Missouri Modern Rather Scheme Several St. Louis Were

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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.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Bottom Centre Count Extraordinary Find Numbers Pick Pine Proportions Recurring Running Scales Sides Spiral Top Truth Up Will You

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The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Absolutes Affluence Become Dominant Models Prized Rare Relative Rule Seems Thin Thus Times

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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful People Confirm Evolutionary People Psychologists Trip Us

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You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Believe Exercise Feedback Immune Indirect Let Us More Obviously Own Patient Placebo Say Some Strenuous System Take Therapy Through Us Way Willpower Work Working Works You

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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.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Any Architecture Branch Cheaply Complexity Computer Efficiently Exactly Get How Just Leaf Look Methods New Previous Produced Production Quickly Repetition Science Showing Similar Slight Tree Using Variation You

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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Kitsch Lost Meaning Meaning Of Ornament Postmodernism Understanding

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You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: About Bigger Changes Cosmic Culture Darwin Evolution Evolving Exciting Fact Faster Getting Go Goes Gradually He Horses In Fact Jumps Know Look Natural Natural Selection Phase Pigeon Said Scale See Selection Talking Things Through Very You

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Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

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Topics: Architecture Being Different Explaining General Modern Only Repetitive Rooms Suffered Van Were

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

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Art Believe Beyond Say Sensational Should Something

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 21st, 1939

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