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Description: Charles Jencks, known for his books questioning Modern architecture and defining its successors - late Neo and Post-modern architecture. Divides his time between lecturing, writing and designing in USA, Europe and UK. Born in Baltimore in 1939, studied under the Modern architectural historians Siegfried Giedon and Reyner Banham. Now designs landscape, sculpture and writes on cosmogenic art. Trustee and co-founder with Maggie Keswick in 1995 of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres.

Keywords: UK, charles jencks, architect, writer, historian, architecture, garden, post-modern architecture, maggie's centres, cancer, caring, maggie keswick, books, lecturer, lectures, portrack, scotland, the garden of cosmic speculation, the new paradigm in architecture