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Charles Jencks

1939 - 2019

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Charles Alexander Jencks (June 21, 1939 – October 13, 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as a theorist of postmodernism. Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Jencks has received more than 357,267 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles Jencks is the 308th most popular architect (down from 269th in 2019), the 4,193rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,512th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Architect.

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  • 27

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  • 5.09

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  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Jencks ranks 308 out of 518. Before him are Moshe Safdie, Paul Wallot, Giovanni da Udine, Juan Bautista de Toledo, William Chambers, and Albert Kahn. After him are Dominikus Zimmermann, Joseph Poelaert, Thom Mayne, Helmut Jahn, Augustin Ehrensvärd, and Ron Arad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Charles Jencks ranks 246. Before him are Phil Read, Veniamin Soldatenko, Michael Gazzaniga, Yury Glazkov, Vladimir Ivashov, and John Pilger. After him are Peter Mayle, Patrick Wayne, Roy Buchanan, Ljiljana Petrović, Gila Almagor, and Ileana Cotrubaș. Among people deceased in 2019, Charles Jencks ranks 200. Before him are Scott Walker, Rudi Gutendorf, Bob Hawke, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chelo Alonso, and Jean-Pierre Mocky. After him are Claude Goretta, Prosper Grech, Karin Balzer, Tania Mallet, France-Albert René, and Gyoji Matsumoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 4,193 out of 20,380. Before him are Friz Freleng (1906), Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Ona Zee (1951), Harrison Ford (1884), and Son House (1902). After him are Frank Serpico (1936), Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Anne Francis (1930), Lindsey Graham (1955), Alexandra Daddario (1986), and Huey Long (1893).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 16. Before him are Charles Eames (1907), Adrian Smith (1944), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), and Sixto Durán Ballén (1921). After him are Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Michael Graves (1934), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), and Daniel Burnham (1846).

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