Two minutes after Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie, were told her cancer had returned and she had months to live, the couple found themselves in a dark hospital corridor. They were both ...

What to make then, of the cosmic mindset of the architect and writer Charles Jencks, as manifested in the space that was once ...

‘Architecture is a better profession than doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants and all the other options', said Charles Jencks, who died last Monday at his London home. Certainly in his hands, it ...

It’s more than 35 years since Charles Jencks – the critic credited with the briefly shocking idea that modern architecture was dead, and then with popularising postmodernism – first opened the door of ...

In 1982, architectural historian and cultural theorist Charles Jencks took to the stage at RIBA to deliver a polemical and playful lecture: ‘Postmodernism: The true inheritor of Modernism’. The talk ...

Ahead of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award ceremony and winner's lecture on Monday 4 November, we look back at the award and the life of its patron Charles Jencks, who sadly passed away on this month.