Landscape architect Charles Jencks: Designer parks as a living organism
Meet Charles Jencks Charles
Jencks is chiefly an American landscape architect and also a sculptor, designer, critic, writer and a member of the so-called architectural post-modern style. He was born and grew up in New England. In 1961 he acquired his title at Harvard University for his bachelor’s thesis about English literature. In 1965 he graduated from his master’s study course in the field of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
He studied modern architecture with historians Siefried Giedonom and Reyner Banhamom. He is also known for his volumes about post-modernism and architecture and also his bold critical voice directed against contemporary architecture and design.
Creation is the controlled theory of chaos
This leading figure of British landscape architecture, as he is frequently credited, works with genetics, with the theory of chaos and fractals, which are the most complicated of geometric objects investigated by current mathematic science, but which frequently have a surprisingly simple mathematical structure.
He is chiefly interested in always maintaining the traditional beauties of the garden, which are however improved by visual lines using new instruments and plastic materials. The excellent landscape art of Charles Jencks shows that deluxe nature can be transformable as an artificially created structure. His work is a celebration of nature in combination with scientific and architectural design. Jencks’ gardens and parks are distinguished by his unique style based on his unique experience.
The unbelievable work titled “Cells of life"
This deluxe portrayal of life characteristically named “Cells of life” consists of eight forms and a connecting path, which encourages visitors to drive or walk across the exhibited area. The mounds of grass surround four lakes and a flat island, which is the location of a smaller statue. The configuration of the landscape is influenced by the biology of the cell, the basic unit of life, particularly the process of mitosis during which one cell splits into two. The earth celebrates cells as the basis of life.
Other designer works linked to vegetation
Topics of landscape architecture designs are also developed in his own private deluxe “Garden of cosmic speculation” at Portrack House in Dumfries. He created the deluxe Wu Chi garden fro his wife, who established a cancer treatment centre. Other works include the oval terrace of the black hole, the Olympic park in Peking in 2008 and many others.
