I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. Charles Jencks Read Quote
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is – certain, even dogmatic – until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. Charles Jencks Read Quote
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. Charles Jencks Read Quote
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. Charles Jencks Read Quote
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. Charles Jencks Read Quote