“After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a 'critical mass,' a Modernism², and become a conscious tradition.”

The Iconic Building - The Power of Enigma, Frances Lincoln, London, 2005.

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Frances Lincoln Limited, London, October 2003.

The New Paradigm in Architecture, the seventh edition of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, Yale University Press, London, New Haven, 2002.

Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture, The Monacelli Press, 2000

Architecture 2000 and Beyond, (Critique & new predictions for 1971 book), Academy, Wiley, May 2000

Millennium Architecture, Academy, Wiley, AD, Guest Editor with Maggie Toy 2000.

Ecstatic Architecture, Academy, Wiley, London, NY 1999.

New Science - New Architecture? Architectural Design, special issue # 129, December 1997.

Theories and Manifestos of Contemporary Architecture, ed. with Karl Kropf, Wiley, London, NY 1997.

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe, Academy, London & NY, 1995. Second Edition Wiley, 1997.

Heteropolis - Los Angeles, The Riots & Hetero-Architecture, Academy, London & NY, 1993.

The Post-Modern Reader, Editor, Academy/St. Martins, 1992.

The New Moderns, Academy London, Rizzoli, NY 1990.