A biography for Charles Jenckshasn’t been written yet.
“It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.”
“What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.”
“If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.”
“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”
“A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.”
“Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.”