What is Charles Jencks?
[[Image:Jencks 046 b&w.jpg|thumb|260px|Charles Jencks]] '''Charles Alexander Jencks''' (21 June 1939 – 13 October 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer and architectural historian. He was the co-founder of the [[Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres]]. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of [[Postmodernism]].<ref name=ft>{{cite news |last= Hawcock |first= Neville|date= June 26, 2015|title= The Crawick Multiverse: sandpit becomes land art|newspaper= Financial Times |url= https://www.ft.com/content/9eeb3b26-1a63-11e5-a130-2e7db721f996 |access-date= 6 Dec 2016}}</ref> His works include ''[[Garden of Cosmic Speculation]]'' and earthworks at [[Jupiter Artland]] outside [[Edinburgh]]. His continuing project ''[[Crawick Multiverse]]'', commissioned by the [[Duke of Buccleuch]], opened in 2015 near [[Sanquhar]]. Jencks was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. He died at the age of 80 on 13 October 2019 in [[London]] of [[cancer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/health/charles-jencks-co-founder-of-maggie-s-cancer-charity-dies-age-80-1-5023153|title=Charles Jencks, co-founder of Maggie's cancer charity, dies age 80|website=www.scotsman.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Mathematics and art}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jencks, Charles}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in London]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American architects]] [[Category:American critics]] [[Category:Writers from Baltimore]] {{US-bio-stub}}