A Genealogy of Post-Modern Architecture

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

An Adhocist Manifesto

I am not like Robert Venturi, an architect who criticises, but rather a critic who architects

An Internal Dialogue: Architect vs Critic

Architectural Library at The Cosmic House

Architecture of Our Time

Axonometric drawing of The Cosmic House

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

Charles Jencks: The Architect in the Jumping Universe

Colosseum Chair and Domical Stool

True Post-Modernists really do believe in a field of tensions, in the necessity for Traditional and Modern approaches to flourish

Death for Rebirth

Designs for Spring and Winter Fireplaces

Designs for the Rear Facade

Drawing of Solar Stair

Elemental House

Elevations Plan of the Architectural Library

Evolutionary Tree to the Year 2000

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Charles introduced me to Eduardo at the Royal Academy of Art café. On seeing an image of my bust of Leéon Krier, he immediately agreed to sit for me.

Hephaestus in The Cosmic House: Program and Process

Hunt the Symbol

Illustration for Charles Jencks’ Crawick Multiverse

Jencks Typeface

London Column at The Cosmic House

Léon Krier, Charles J. Wishing the P.M. World were a Lighter Thing to Carry

Moonwell at The Cosmic House

The question we face today, like the one Jencks began to answer half a century ago, is how to ensure that the architectural eco-system continues to thrive

Multiform and the Legacies of Post-Modernism

Plan of the Ground Floor of The Cosmic House

According to the ancient definition of the word the edifices were for edification, but they were also Pop expressions of a new attitude to architecture meant to communicate. 

Post-Modern Classicism – The Ironic International Style

Post-Modernism: The True Inheritor of Modernism?

Rem Koolhaas, Designs for Spring Room

Section of The Cosmic House

As Braque said: 'Reality only reveals itself when illuminated by a ray of poetry. All around us is asleep.'

Semiology and Architecture

Seventeen Themes of The Thematic House

Sketch for Conservatory Windows

Sketch for the Rear Facade of The Cosmic House

Sketches for Elemental House

Sketches for Spring and Winter Fireplaces

Solar Stair

Solar Stair at The Cosmic House

Sun Furniture for The Cosmic House

Symbolic Furniture

Symbolic Furniture Designs

Symbolic Furniture Press

Symbolic Programme for Autumn Room

Symbolic Programme for Spring Room

Symbolic Programme for Summer Room

Symbolic Programme for Winter Room

Symbolic Programmes for The Cosmic House

Symbolic Programmes for the Time Garden and Future Pavilion

Ten Notes on Post-Modernism

The Century is Over. Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture

The Cosmic Oval at The Cosmic House

The Evolutionary Tree

The Jencks Suite, Time Garden

The Jencksiana Symbol

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

The Presentness of the Past 

In our musée imaginaire, in our museum city that has recapitulated world history, styles have lost their overall meaning and become, instead, genres.

Towards a Radical Eclecticism

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

Voicing the Archive

What can you do with a Cosmic House?

History, particularly cultural history, tends to privilege narrative over fact. When you tell a good story, people tell it again.

What is/was Post-Modern (or Never Take the Marble for Granite)

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

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

Constantly re-written and visually reassessed, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture could be seen as an evolotome or an evolving treatise.

Writing ‘from the Battlefield’: Charles Jencks and The Language of Post-Modern Architecture

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