Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture..Postmodernism in the house of the architect Charles Jencks .. At first glance, located in Notting Hill House by Charles Jencks is not very different from its neighbors in the quarter - a handsome mansion of the XIX century. But in fact it is "misdirected Cossack," cleverly disguised as the environment, its windows and doors give an unusual curved form.