Urtzi Grau and Francesca Hughes, Cul-de-sac, 2023

Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken, Feminist Spatial Practices, Part 1, 2023

Pier Vittorio Aureli and Marson Korbi, Base and Superstructure: A Vulgar Survey of Western Architecture, 2023

MOULD, Architecture is Climate, 2023

‘ims and ‘wasms: Chronograms of Architecture, Editorial by Eszter Steierhoffer, Lily Jencks and e-flux Architecture

Some time in 1969, the 30-year-old critic and historian Charles Jencks made a blobby diagram that would become as iconic as any drawing of a building or city by an architect.

Mark Wigley, The Drawing that Ate Architecture, 2023

22 February 2023, 7pm - 2022 RIBA Charles Jencks Award Lecture with Forensic Architecture (Cancelled)

Architecture Writing Prize 2022 Winners Announced

‘how to pass through a door’: an interview with Marysia Lewandowska

Ilinca Cantacuzino, Moonwell and other commissions for The Cosmic House

Rem Koolhaas, Designs for Spring Room

Lev Bratishenko, What can you do with a Cosmic House?

What is the purpose of the Garden? To refresh the heart. How? Through sense and imagination; engage emotions and mind.

Marysia Lewandowska, Voicing the Archive

Celia Scott, Hephaestus in The Cosmic House: Program and Process

Ian Hamilton Finlay with Ian Gardner, The Jencks Suite

‘Now that Post-Modern architecture has triumphed around the world, many people have declared it dead. This, the fate of all successful movements, is something to be celebrated.’

Charles Jencks, Death for Rebirth, 1990

Jencks Typeface

Terry Farrell, Rear Facade of The Cosmic House

Madelon Vriesendorp, Illustration for Charles Jencks’ Crawick Multiverse

Terry Farrell, Axonometric Drawing of The Cosmic House

Charles Jencks, Post-Modernism: The True Inheritor of Modernism?

‘Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?’

Charles Jencks: The Architect in the Jumping Universe, by Lily Jencks

Owen Hopkins, What is/was Post-Modern

Post-Modernism was a cognitive-affective challenge and opportunity, at once a new way of thinking and new way of being.

Steven Connor, 'What is/was Post-Modern: Irony, Urgency (and So On)

What is Post-Modernism? That’s a tough one… famously so. But here’s an equally good question: what isn’t it?

What Is/Was Post-Modernism, by Glenn Adamson

Charles Jencks, Evolutionary Tree to the Year 2000, 1971

When ’wasms became ’isms, discussion hosted by

the Architectural Association

Marysia Lewandowska, Voicing the Archive, 2021/22

Curating the Cosmic House, part of Curatorial Conversations at The Warburg Institute

If necessity is the mother of invention, then combining previous systems is the father, and adhocism is the creative offspring.

Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver, An Adhocist Manifesto, 2013

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