LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

AR-707
 CULTURAL THEORIST
 AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
DESIGNER
 ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORIAN
 CO-FOUNDER OF MAGGIE’S
CANCER CARE CENTRES

-HE HAS PUBLISHED OVER 30

BOOKS AND BECAME FAMOUS IN
THE 1980S AS THE THEORIST OF
POSTMODERNISM.
 Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 21, 1939, Charles
Alexander Jencks was the son of composer Gardner Platt
Jencks and Ruth DeWitt Pearl.
 Attended Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts,
and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature
at Harvard University in 1961 and a Master of Arts degree in
Architecture from Harvard School of Design in 1965.
 In 1970 Jencks received a PhD in architectural history,
studying under the radical modernist Reyner Banham at
University College, London. This thesis was the source for his
Modern Movements in Architecture(1973) which criticised the
suppression of some Modernist variations.
AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS SECOND WIFE MAGGIE
KESWICK JENCKS DIED IN1995, JENCKS HELPED CO-
FOUND MAGGIE’S CANCER CENTRES.
 GARDEN OF COSMIC SPECULATION,
SCOTLAND
 EARTHWORKS AT JUPITER ARTLAND
CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE PARK AN
DART GALLERY IN WEST LOTHIAN,
SCOTLAND.
 CRAWICK MULTIVERSE BRITAIN.
 THE GODDESS OF THE NORTH
 GARDEN OF COSMIC SPECULATION, SCOTLAND
•GARDEN IS INSPIRED BY MODERN SCIENCE
AND MATHEMATICS, WITH SCULPTURES AND
LANDSCAPING ON THESE THEMES SUCH AS
BLACK HOLES AND FRACTALS.COMBINES WITH
NATURAL FEATURES AND ARTIFICIAL SYMMETRY
AND CURVES.

-BASED ON THE SELF HELPAND THE FACT

THAT THE CANCER PATIENTS ARE OFTEN
INVOLVED IN LONG DRAWN OUT
STRUGGLE, THE CENTRES PROVIDE SOCIAL
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP IN AN
ATTRACTIVE SETTING NEXT TO LARGE
HOSPITALS. THEIR ARCHITECTURE,
LANDSCAPE, AND ART ARE DESIGNED TO
SUPPORT BOTH PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS
AND TO GIVE DIGNITY TO THOSE WHO, IN
THE PAST, OFTEN HIDE THEIR DISEASE.
 JENCKS SWITCHED TO LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS A
SITE FOR SYMBOLIC EXPLORATION WHEN MAGGIE
ASKED CHARLES TO DESIGN IN THE FAMILY HOME
AND GARDEN IN SCOTLAND.
 THE RESULT IN 2003 WAS THE GARDEN OF COSMIC
SPECULATION, A SERIES OF TWEMTY AREAS
DESIGNED AROUND VARIOUS METAPHORS SUCH AS
THE DNA GARDEN, QUARK WALK, FRACTAL
TERRACE AND COMET BRIDGE.

Further hybrid landforms and

symbolic sculptures were built
in Edinburgh, Milan, Long Island
, Cambridge, Suncheon South
Korea(with Lily Jencks), and
other countries, some of which
was published in The Universe
in The Landscape, 2011.
 EARTHWORKS AT JUPITER ARTLAND CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE
PARK AN DART GALLERY IN WEST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND.
-EARTHWORKS AT JUPITER ARTLAND

-JUPITER ARTLAND IS A GARDEN OF

DISCOVERY- AN EARTHWORK HERE,
A COPSE OF CRADLED ROCKS THERE,
THE ENTRANCE TO A FATHOMLESS
BURROW RIGHT BEFORE YOUR FEET.
VISITORS TO JUPITER ATRLAND ARE
GIVEN A MAP INDICATING THE
LOCATION OF THE ARTWORKS
WITHIN THE GROUNDS.
  CRAWICK MULTIVERSE
JENCKS DESCRIBE IT AS “COSMIC LANDSCAPE WORTHY OF
THE ANCIENTS. -LAND ART PROJECT BY
CHARLES JENCKS NEAR
•IT OPENED TO PUBLIC SANQUHAR, DRUMFRIES
AND GALLOWAY.
ON 21 JUNE 2015. -55 ACRES MAKING IT
-THE CRAWICK MULTIVERSE THE LARGEST JENCKS
LANDFORM USE STONE, INTHE STYLE WORKS IN BRITAIN
OF THE MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS -REPRESENTS IDEAS FROM
INCLUDE THE NORTH SOUTH LINE, A MODERNCOSMOLOGY
400M LONG STONE AVENUE
FLANKED BY OVER 3000 BOULDERS
AND TWO STONE CIRCLES ON THE
TOP OF MOUNDS REPRESENTING
MILKY WAY AND ANDROMA
GALAXIES. 2000 BOULDERS ARE USED.
 IT IS CALLED THE
NORTHUMBERLANDIA( THE
GODDESS OF THE NORTH)OR THE
LADY.
 COMMISSIONED BY THE UK
COALMINING COMPANY, JENCKS IS
CREATING TO A GIANT LAND
GODDESS SCULPTURE THAT’S
112FEET HIGH AND 1300 FEET LONG.
COMPLETED IN 2013, THE LARGEST
HUMAN FORM SCULPTED INTO THE
LANDSCAPE AND ITS MEANT FOR
WALKING ON.

INSPIRED THE LADY’S CURVES AND

CONTOURS
 “PLURALISM IS THE KEY TO ARCHITECTS
DELIVERING THE ‘GOOD LIFE’IN A HECTIC
WORLD”.

-PLURALISM IS ONE OF THE DEEP

VALUES OF THE HUMAN CONDITION AND IT
IS THE JOB OF THE ARCHITECT TO DESIGN
FOR DIFFERING VIEWS.