Charles Jencks approached us with an ambitious vision: to transform his family home into a house-museum dedicated to his life’s work, archives and architectural philosophy. Conceived over many years in collaboration with architects including Terry Farrell, Nick Grimshaw, Michael Graves and Piers Gough, the house is a built manifesto for Post-Modern architecture and has since been recognised with Grade I listing. The challenge was to adapt this highly symbolic and layered building for public use, while carefully preserving the intellectual clarity, meaning and fabric of the original work.

We worked closely with Charles to realise a new public route through the house, transforming the existing garage and lower ground floor into a dedicated exhibition space accessed via an external amphitheatre and Jencksian gates. Elsewhere, extensive repair, conservation and upgrading works were undertaken to secure the building’s long-term future. Over many months, we meticulously developed the design alongside Charles, ensuring that every intervention respected the house’s underlying theory and symbolism while meeting modern statutory requirements. The result is a carefully balanced house-museum that allows the building to be experienced both as a domestic space and as a profound architectural statement.