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Maggie Cancer Care Centres Charles Jencks, landscape architect, critic, and author of 30 books on architectural history, who co-founded Maggie’s Centres to offer support to people with cancer, has died at his home in London at the age of 80. The result was the dazzlingly original Garden of Cosmic Speculation, conceived as a microcosm of the universe; it included depictions of giant black holes and DNA, aluminium sculptures, zigzagging staircases, and chequerboard patterns. Awards and publications In addition to those mentioned earlier, Jencks’s awards included the Melbourne Oration, Australia, 1974; the Bosom Lectures, Royal Society of Arts, London 1980; a RIBA gold medal, 1983; the Japanese Nara gold medal for architecture, 1992; Country Life Gardener of the Year, 1998; and an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow, 2005 Apart from his book, he contributed to magazines and journals.