Charles Jencks: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, February 2006, updated November 2013 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Charles Jencks. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) Adhocism: the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver London: Seckler and Warburg, 1972 ISBN 0385016174 AA SHELFMARK: 7.01.036 JEN Adhocism: the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013 Expanded and updated edition ISBN 9780262518444 AA SHELFMARK: 7.01.036 JEN Anytime / edited by Cynthia Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999 ISBN 0262541025 (8 TH Anyone Corporation Conference held in Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, contributors include Charles Jencks) AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY Architecture 2000: predictions and methods / Charles Jencks Vista, 1971 London: Studio Architecture 2000 and beyond: success in the art of prediction / Charles Jencks Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2000 ISBN 0471495344 Architecture of hope: Maggie s cancer caring centres / Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote London: Frances Lincoln, 2010 ISBN 9780711225978 AA SHELFMARK: 725.511(42) JEN Architecture of the jumping universe: how complexity science is changing architecture and culture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1995, revised edition 1997 ISBN 0471977489 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JEN Bizarre architecture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1979 ISBN 0856705713 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JEN
Can architecture affect your health? / Charles Jencks Rotterdam: Sikkens Foundation, 2012 ISBN 9789491444012 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036.5:613 JEN Charles Jencks / edited by Toshio Nakamura Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1986 (A+U: Architecture and Urbanism Extra editions, 1986) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92JEN NAK Critical modernism: where is post-modernism going? / Charles Jencks Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2007 ISBN 9780470030110 AA SHELFMARK: 7.036.5 JEN Daydream houses of Los Angeles / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1978 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3(794) JEN Deconstruction in architecture / Charles Jencks (Ad Profile, 72) Academy Editions, 1988 ISBN 0856709417 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 ARC London: Designing a house / Charles Jencks and Terry Farrell Editions, 1986 ISBN 0312194625 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(421) ARC London: Academy Ecstatic architecture: the surprising link (from a debate of the Academy International Forum at the Royal Academy) / edited by Charles Jencks Chichester: Academy Editions, 1999 ISBN 0471983985 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JEN Frank O Gehry: individual imagination and cultural conservatism / edited by Charles Jencks, with a critical discourse by Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Kipnis London: Academy Editions, 1995 ISBN 1854904086 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:92GEH JEN Free-style classicism / edited by Charles Jencks 1982 (AD January/February 1982) London: Architectural Design, Garden of cosmic speculation / Charles Jencks London: Frances Lincoln, 2003 ISBN 0711222169 AA SHELFMARK: 712.036(411) JEN Heteropolis: Los Angeles, the riots and the strange beauty of hetero-architecture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1993 ISBN 1854902067 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(794L) JEN
Iconic building: the power of enigma / Charles Jencks 2005 ISBN 0711224269 London: Frances Lincoln, Kings of infinite space: Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1983 ISBN 031245595X AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92WRI JEN Language of post-modern architecture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1978 Le Corbusier and the architecture of reinvention / Tim Benton, Charles Jencks, and others (proceeds of a conference held at the Architectural Association in March 2001) London: AA Publications, 2003 ISBN 1902902297 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(44):92LEC LEC Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architecture / Charles Jencks London: Penguin Books, 1987 ISBN 0140100725 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(44):92LEC JEN Le Corbusier and the continual revolution in architecture / Charles Jencks New York: Monacelli Press, 2000 ISBN 1580930778 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(44):92LEC JEN London dialogues: Serpentine Gallery 24-hour interview marathon / Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas (includes interview with Charles Jencks) Milano: Skira; London: Thames and Hudson [distributor], 2012 ISBN 9788857200590 AA SHELFMARK: 7.036.5(42) OBR Meaning in architecture / Charles Jencks and George Baird London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1969 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01 JEN Millennium architecture / edited by Maggie Toy and Charles Jencks Academy Editions, 2000 ISBN 0471720240 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 ARC London: Modern movements in architecture / Charles Jencks Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973 ISBN 0140226265 New paradigm in architecture: the language of post-modernism / Charles Jencks New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002 ISBN 0300095139
New science = new architecture? / edited by Charles Jencks Editions, 1997 ISBN 047197739X AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ARC London: Academy Philip Johnson: the constancy of change/ Emmanuel Petit; foreword by Robert A M Stern; includes essay by Charles Jencks New Haven: Yale University Press,2009 ISBN 9780300121810 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92JOH PET Post-modernism: the new classicism in art and architecture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1987 ISBN 0856708674 AA SHELFMARK: 7.036 JEN (MLC) Post-modern classicism: the new synthesis / guest-edited by Charles Jencks (AD Profile 28) London: Academy Editions, 1980 Postmodern reader / edited by Charles Jencks 1992 London: Academy Editions, Post-modern reader / edited by Charles Jencks witheva Branscome and Lea- Catherine Szacka Chichester: John Wiley, 2011 2 ND Edition ISBN 9780470748664 Post-modern triumphs in London / guest-edited and written by Charles Jencks London: Academy Editons, 1991 ISBN 1854901036 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(421) ARC Post-modernism and discontinuity / Charles Jencks 1987 ISBN 0856709131 (AD Profile 65) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 ARC London: Academy Editions, Radical post-modernism / guest-edited by Charles Jencks and FAT John Wiley, 2011 ISBN 9780470669884 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036.5 JEN Chichester: Signs, symbols and architecture/ edited by Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt, Charles Jencks Chichester: Wiley, 1980 ISBN 0471997188 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01:003.62 BRO Skyscrapers, skyprikcers, skycities / Charles Jencks New York: Rizzoli, 1980 ISBN 084780285X AA SHELFMARK: 721.011.27 JEN
Story of post-modernism: five decades of the ironic, iconic and critical in architecture / Charles Jencks Chichester: Wiley, 2011 ISBN 9780470688953 Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1997 ISBN 0471976873 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JEN Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture / edited by Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2006 2 nd edition ISBN 0470014695 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 JEN Towards a symbolic architecture: the thematic house / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 1985 ISBN 0856708607 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036 JEN Universe in the landscape: landforms by Charles Jencks / Charles Jencks London: Frances Lincoln, 2011 ISBN 9780711232341 AA SHELFMARK: 712.036(42):92JEN JEN What is post-modernism? / Charles Jencks London: Academy Editions, 3 RD Edition, 1989 and 4 th edition, 1996 ISBN 1854900099 AA SHELFMARK 72.036 JEN Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2013 Inside out clarity / article by Charles Jencks in RIBA Journal vol.120 no.9 September 2013 / p.81 Architecture becomes music / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Review vol.233 no.1395 May 2013 / p.91-108 2012 Contextual counterpoint in architecture / article by Charles Jencks in Log no.24 Winter/Spring 2012 / p.71-80 Jencks sculpture space a giant sculpture in the shape of a reclining woman has opened on the Blagdon Estate in Building Design no.2027 September 7, 2010 / p.5
Skylines; Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop / article by Charles Jencks and others in Architectural Review vol.232 no.1386 August 2012 / p.50-57 2011 Post-Modernism comes of age / article by Charles Jencks in Blueprint no.307 October 2011 / p.71-76 Radical post-modernism / article by Charles Jencks, FAT and others in Architectural Design vol.81 no.5 September/October 2011 / p.5-135 Art in the open / article by Hugh Pearman (includes photographs of Charles Jencks sculptured mounds at Jupiter Artland) in RIBA Journal VOL.118 NO.6 June 2011 / p.27 Earthly delights / article by Robert Harbison (on Charles Jencks adventures in landscape design) in Architecture Today no.219 June 2011 / p.4, 6. 2009 Icon minds symposium ( includes The return of ornament conversation between architectural historian Charles Jencks and architects Farshid Moussavi and Marjan Colletti) in Icon no.078 December 2009 / p.67-71 Charles Jencks and the historiography of post-modernism / article by Elie Haddad in Journal of Architecture vol.14 no.4 August 2009 / p.493-510 Machine in the garden: Charles Jencks s Garden of Scottish Worthies / article by Paula Deitz in Architectural Record vol.197 no.7 July 2009 / p.50-54 Folded landscapes: Deleuze s concept of the fold and its potential for contemporary landscape architecture / article by Martin Prominski and Spyridon Koutroufinis (with examples from Charles Jencks, Peter Eisenman and others) in Landscape Journal vol.28 no.2 2009 / p.151-165
2008 Look laugh and learn / article by Charles Jencks in Building Design no.1823 June 13, 2008 / p.28-29 2007 Ultimate architecture / article by Charles Jencks in Building Design no.1779 July 13, 2007 / p.14-17 Complex concepts and controlling designs: Charles Jencks landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh) in Journal of Landscape Architecture Spring 2007 / p.64-75 The post man still delivers / article by Ellis Woodman (interview with Charles Jencks) in Building Design no.1765 April 5, 2007/ p.16 2006 Cathedral and bike shed: icons and the city / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Review vol.220 no.1315 September 2006 / p.30-33 Seeing through modernist spectacles / article by Charles Jencks in Building Design no.1712 March 10, 2006 / p.30-31 2005 The malediction of Agamemnon: Garden of war the war of the garden article by Charles Jencks (Jencks describes how the theme of chaos at the Chaumont Garden Festival in France in 2004 inspired an interactive garden of attack) in Architectural Design, 75 (4) July-August 2005 / p.139-141 The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Portrack House, Scotland / article by Michael Spens in Topos no. 51 June 2005 / p.58-65 Letting go / article by David Salomon (on Charles Jencks and the death of modernism) in Log, (5) Spring/Summer 2005 / p.139-144
Jencks on Johnson / article by Robert Booth (Charles Jencks discusses US architect Philip Johnson) in Building Design no.1659 February 4, 2005 / p.9 Identity parade: Miralles and the Scottish Parliament; Architects: EMBT Arquitectes Associaats with RMJM Scotland / article by Charles Jencks in Architecture Today no.154 January 2005 / p.32-44 2004 The truth about icons / article by Charles Jencks in Architects Journal vol.220 no.9 September 9, 2004 / p.20-24 Nature talking with nature / article by Charles Jencks (Charles Jencks: Garden of Cosmic Speculation) in Architectural Review, 215 (1283) January 2004 / p.66-71 2003 The new paradigm in architecture (Charles Jencks: New paradigm in architecture: the language of post-modernism) in Hunch: the Berlage Institute report (6-7) Summer 2003 / p.251-268 2002 Charles Jencks / article by Deyan Sudjic in Domus (852) October 2002 / p.178-179 (text in Italian+English) How big is bad? / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Review vol.212 no.1266 August 2002 / p.66-69 The new paradigm and September 11 th : Peter Eisenman in conversation with Charles Jencks / Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas in Architectural Design, 72 (4) July 2002 / p. 98-106 Marks, signs and symbols: a conversation between Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas / article by Rem Koolhaas and Charles Jencks in Arquitectura Viva (83) March/April 2002 / p.54-59 (text in Spanish+English summaries)
2001 Fame versus celebrity: interview with Charles Jencks / by Julia Chance in Architectural Design, 71 (6) November 2001 / p.12-17 Functional icons: Charles Jencks in conversation with Lord Foster / Norman Foster and Charles Jencks in Architectural Design, 71(6) November 2001 / p.24-33 Le Corbusier and the continual revolution in architecture, by Charles Jencks: book review in AA Files no.44 Autumn 2001 / p.74-78 Life after Maggie / article by Vicky Richardson (interview with Charles Jencks about the cancer caring centres he has commissioned leading architects to design following his wife Maggies s fight with the disease) in RIBA Journal vol.108 no.2 February 2001 / p.18-19 The bigness of small magazines / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.71 no.1 February 2001 / p.94-95 Le Corbusier and the continual revolution / article by Charles Jencks in Domus no.833 January 2001 / p.64-75 (text in Italian+English) 2000 Branding signs, symbols or something else?: Charles Jencks in conversation with Rem Koolhaas in Architectural Design, 70 (6) December 2000 / p.34-41 A critical contribution: Charles Jencks and AD [1977-2000]: interview / article by Charles Jencks and Helen Castle in Architectural Design, 70 (6) December 2000 / p.98-102 Jencks s theory of evolution: an overview of twentieth-century architecture / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Review vol.208 no.1241 July 2000 / p.76-79 1999 The name game / article by Susanna Sirefman (interview with Charles Jencks on his 1971 book Architecture 2000) in Architecture vol.88 no.12 December 1999 / p.49-55
1998 Making waves; Landscape Architects: Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick / article by John Beardsley (Garden of Cosmic Speculation) in Landscape architecture vol.88 no.3 March 1998 / p.64-71, 92, 94-97 1997 The universe as measure [cosmic symbolism in garden design] / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol.12 no.11/12 November/December 1997 / p.20-29 Nonlinear architecture: new science = new architecture? / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.67 no.9/10 September./October 1997 / p.7 Complexity definition and nature s complexity / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.67 no.9/10 September/October 1997 / p.8-9 Landform architecture: emergent in the nineties / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.67 no.9/10 September/October 1997 / p.14-31 Los Angeles styles and heteropolis / article by Charles Jencks in Arkitekten (Copenhagen) vol.99 no.15 June 1997 / p.16-20 (text in Danish) 1996 An architecture of complexity: interviewing Charles Jencks: interview in Transition (52-53) 1996 / p.28-35 Philip Johnson 90: a birthday festschrift / article by Jean-Louis Cohen and others (includes Last judgment (interim), by Charles Jencks) in ANY: Architecture New York no.90 1996 / p.34-35 1995 New science new architecture / article by Charles Jencks in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.10 (301) October 1995 / p.6-15 (text in Japanese+English)
High-tech slides to organi-tech / article by Charles Jencks in ANY: Architecture New York no.10 1995 / p.44-49 Cosmogenic architecture / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.65 no.9/10 September/October 1995 / p.viii-xi An architecture of waves and twists / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.65 no.5/6 May/June 1995 / p.x-xiii The earth moved / article by Charles Jencks (features Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick s curved and sculpted land forms and renovation of their home in Scotland) in The World of Interiors, 15 (5) May 1995 / p.118-125 Aphorisms on power / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.65 no.3/4 March/April 1995 / p.20-23 1994 39 steps to surfing, or the trajectory of Rem Koolhaas / article by Charles Jencks in ANY: Architecture New York no.9 1994 / p.41-45 1992 Why the ego laughs or, the absurdity of the modern architectural ethic: interview with Charles Jencks / article by Ole Bouman and Roemer van Toorn in Archis no.4 April 1992 / p.22-26 (text in Dutch) The new modern agenda / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.62 no.1/2 January/February 1992 / p.16-19 1991 Pop goes the pluniverse / article by Charles Jencks in Building Design no.1057 November 15, 1991 / p.16-17 1990 The new moderns / article by Charles Jencks in Building Design no.1004 September 21, 1990 / p.25-33
The resurrection and death of the new moderns / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.60 no.7/8 1990 / p.20-25 New architecture: the new moderns and the super moderns / article by Charles Jencks and others in Architectural Design vol.60 no.3/4 1990 / p.6-18, 26-33 1989 Eisenman s white holes / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.59 no.11/12 November/December 1989 / p.23-37 Shin Takamatsu: the killing moon / article by Charles Jencks in AA Files no.17 Spring 1989 / p.100-104 Signs of the times / article by Charles Jencks (edited version of a paper on Prince Charles interventions in architecture delivered to the SOM Foundation s conference on ethics and architecture) in Building Design no.919 January 13, 1989 / p.24-26 1988 The battle of high-tech: great buildings with great faults / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.58 no.11/12 November/December 1988 / p.18-39 The new classicism and its emergent rules / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.58 no.1/2 January/February 1988 / p.22-31 1987 Post-avant-garde painting in the eighties / article by Charles Jencks and others in Art and Design vol.3 no.1/2 February 1987 / p.1-80 1986 Ben Johnson and the transcendental materialism / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol. 2 December 1986 / p.10-13
Charles Jencks early critical stances / article by Judith Brine in Architecture Australia vol.75 no.4 June 1986 / p.21-27 Aphorisms on the garden of an aphorist / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol.2 March 1986 / p. 18-24 Charles Jencks / article by Charles Jencks and others (special issue, includes biography, essays on his houses, illustrations of his works, publications list, evolutionary trees of architecture from 1960) in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no. 1 supplement January 1986 / p. 2-240 (text in Japanese+English) 1985 Symbolic furniture; Designers: Charles Jencks / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol.1 no.10 November 1985 / p.9-13, 16 Thematic House / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol.1 no.9 October 1985 / p.14-19, 48 1985 Frank Gehry: the deconstructivist / article by Charles Jencks in Art and Design vol.1 no.4 May 1985 / p.14-19 1984 The building as scenario: Elemental House, Rustic Canyon, California; Architects: Charles Jencks and Moore Ruble Yudell / article by Charles Jencks in Architectural Record vol.172 no.9 (8) August 1984 / p.118-125 Jencks and the collaborators. Does architecture need art, do architects need artists? / article by Charles Jencks in Blueprint vol.1 no.9 July/August 1984 / p.14-15 House of elements in rustic canyon / article by Charles Jencks (design of the pavilions by Charles Jencks and Buzz Yudell; design of the garden by Maggie Keswick and Pamela Burton) in Architectural Review vol.175 no.1048 June 1984 / p.62-69
Post-Modern classicism the synthesis: an interview with Charles Jencks in Architectural Design vol.54 no.3/4 1984 / p.61-63 LA Style / LA School / article by Charles Jencks in AA Files no.5 January 1984 / p.90-93 1983 Post-Modern architecture: the true inheritor of Modernism / article by Charles Jencks in RIBA Transactions no.3 1983 / p.26-41 1982 Architecture after the Modern Movement interview with Charles Jencks / article by Franco Raggi in Modo vol.6 no.54 November 1982 / p.26-29 1980 Post-Modern Classicism: the new synthesis / article by Charles Jencks and others in Architectural Design vol.50 no.5/6 1980 / p.1-145 1977 Post-modernism discussion, with Charles Jencks book The language of Postmodern architecture as a starting point in Architectural Design vol.47 no.4 April 1977 / p.254-286 1975 The rise of post modern architecture / article by Charles Jencks in AA Quarterly vol.7 no.4 October/December 1975 / p.3-14 Website www.charlesjencks.com Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian February 2006, updated November 2013