Charles Jencks

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Charles Jencks is a renowned cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. His best-selling books include The Language of Post- Modern Architecture, Adhocism, The Architecture of the Jumping Universe and The Architecture of Hope (on Maggie's Centres). His recent landscape work is summarized in The Universe in the Landscape. Scotland is home to several of his most exciting landscapes including The Garden of Cosmic Speculation and Jupiter Artland, outside Edinburgh. His continuing project The Crawick Multiverse, 2015, commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch, culminates annually in a three-day festival of performance art and public debates with the world leading cosmologists and scientists.