The Cosmic House review – a dizzying house for all seasons

The extraordinary west London home of the late architect Charles Jencks is nothing short of the built embodiment of his teeming postmodern ideas. And now we’re all welcome“A failure of recent architecture,” wrote the critic, theorist and architect Charles Jencks 45 years ago, “has been one of communication.” He believed buildings should speak, that they should mean something to their inhabitants and passersby. “An architect’s primary and final role,&rdqu