Ahead of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award ceremony and winner's lecture on Monday 4 November, we look back at the award and the life of its patron Charles Jencks, who sadly passed away on this month.

It’s more than 35 years since Charles Jencks – the critic credited with the briefly shocking idea that modern architecture was dead, and then with popularising postmodernism – first opened the door of ...

Jencks’ skepticism led him to question the status quo — and often led him to unexpected, and sometimes unpopular, findings. In the early 1970s, he published a book that exposed the inadequacy ...

Mr. Jencks graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1954. During his senior year, he was President of the Exonian, "Nobody in the North understands this business." The drawl was unmistakable ...