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Charles Jencks

1939 - 2019

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Charles Alexander Jencks (21 June 1939 – 13 October 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 339,201 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles Jencks is the 270th most popular architect (down from 230th in 2019), the 3,522nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,843rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Architect.

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  • 26

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Jencks ranks 270 out of 424. Before him are Paul Wallot, Władysław Horodecki, Édouard André, Bruno Zevi, Michael Graves, and Josep Maria Jujol. After him are William Chambers, Louis Visconti, Moshe Safdie, William Kent, Pierre Cuypers, and Werner March.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Charles Jencks ranks 191. Before him are William Devane, Zeng Qinghong, Dean Corll, Lidiya Skoblikova, Brian Mulroney, and Abdelmajid Lakhal. After him are Marek Janowski, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Paul Gleason, R. Budd Dwyer, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, and Susannah York. Among people deceased in 2019, Charles Jencks ranks 159. Before him are Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Ken Kercheval, René Auberjonois, Ross Perot, and Eva Mozes Kor. After him are Charlie Whiting, Jörg Demus, Marie-José Nat, Goro Shimura, Sogyal Rinpoche, and Sylvia Miles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 3,522 out of 18,182. Before him are Vince Vaughn (1970), Richard E. Bellman (1920), William P. Rogers (1913), Peter Senge (1947), Lisa Edelstein (1966), and Jensen Ackles (1978). After him are Dominic Chianese (1931), Scotty Moore (1931), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Stephen Paddock (1953), Lepke Buchalter (1897), and Dutch Schultz (1902).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Charles Jencks ranks 18. Before him are Adrian Smith (1944), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), and Michael Graves (1934). After him are Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Daniel Burnham (1846), Julia Morgan (1872), and Walter Burley Griffin (1876).

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