Architecture
159 Archival description results for Architecture
-invitation to the opening of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the V&A
-reviews of 1:1 - Architects build small spaces at the V&A
-typescript document titled 'The Canons of Post-Modernism 2' by Charles with annotations
-manuscript notes on the reverse of a printed out email making arrangements for an event at the V&A titled 'Defining Postmodernism'
-reviews of Radical Postmodernism: Architectural Design' edited by Charles and FAT
-interview with Charles on the Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A in the RA Magazine
-printed letter to the editor of the Architectural Review from Charles
-plastic envelope containing printed out composite images titled 'The Leviathan sunk by the critics: the truth speaks, the critic smiles' with figures including Jane Jacobs, Hannah Arendt, Aung Sann Suu Kyi, Anna Politkovskaya, Rachel Carson, Simon Jenkins, Jeremy Paxman and Naom [sic] Chomsky.
-typescript titled "Post-Modernism Resurgent - ten buildings that made a difference' by Charles, with annotations
-typescript titled 'V&A Dinner on PM Sept 20, 2011' by Charles with annotations
-typescript titled 'The Return of Postmodernism' by Charles with annotations
-arrangements for an interview with The Sunday Times to promote The Story of Post-Modernism
-pages from the V&A Magazine Autumn Winter 2011
-printout from The Art Newspaper titled 'The rebirth of postmodern design'
-Fulcrum: The AA's Weekly Free Sheet issue 27, 9 Nov 2011 including an interview with Charles by Jack Self, and covering note
-reviews of Postmodernism at the V&A
-arrangements for Charles to appear on BBC's Night Waves
-arrangements for filming a promotional video for the V&A
-contract for a promotional film for Wiley
-arrangements for press interviews for The Story of Postmodernism
-plastic envelope including reviews, typescript titled 'The Legacy of Post Modernism' by Colin Fournier with Charles' annotations
-The Sunday Times Home 4 Sep 2011 with Charles on the cover and the headline 'Less is a bore'
-flyers for 'Critical Modernism: where is post-modernism going? by Charles
-Evening Standard: Homes & Property 5 Oct 2011 'Status Symbols' interview with Charles
-leaflet titled 'The deposit of your oral history recording at the British Library'
-email correspondence between Charles and Geraint Franklin regarding a 'sound-biography', with Charles' manuscript notes
-National Life Stories: Review and Accounts 2010/2011 comb-bound brochure
-bibliography for [redacted] annotated 'an old student of mine who wants to do an oral history'
-print-outs of catalogue records for Peter Smithson's recordings at the National Life Story Collection
-Typescript document titled 'Charles Jencks: Segments by Subject & Timeline'
-typescript document titled 'Curriculum Vitae - Charles Alexander Jencks' [c2011]
-typescript document titled 'A first stab at content and structure'
-Geraint Franklin cv
-Oral History recording agreement signed by Charles
-transparencies of 19 Lansdowne Walk by Andreas von Einsiedel
Contents of a folder labelled 'CJ Thesis Phd 1966-1970 UCL' in red ink, 'MOD-1945-MANU' and 'ACTIVE FILE' in blue ink, as well as a numbered list of names written in different inks (27 in total).
Includes:
-photograph of Charles in the front row of a lecture theatre, with some attendees using headphones (including Charles)
-typescript headed 'Chapter II A Theory of Value' with manuscript corrections and notes on the reverse
-manuscript notes headed [illegible] on trial Sept 1966?'
-envelope with manuscript notes on both sides headed 'what a boar to know Doctor Banham' and 'The Failure of Success', folded and used as a folder to hold: a review of Banham's The New Brutalism by Nikolaus Pevsner; typescript letter to the editor of The Guardian from Isaac Bickerstaff; cutting of a letter to the editor from Fred Partridge [publication unknown] and typescript version of the same letter with manuscript corrections; typescript letter to the editor signed Charles Jencks, Architectural Association in response to Reyner Banham and manuscript draft; typescript letter to the editor signed Fred Partridge in response to Reyner Banham; manuscript notes headed 'The flip side of Dr Banham'; review of Banham's The New Brutalism by Stephen Mullion from New Society 8 Dec 1966; article titled 'Monumental Folly' by Peter Hall, New Society 24 Oct 1968, annotated.
-typescript headed 'The Major Histories' with manuscript annotations
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Pevsner'
-manuscript notes on plain and lined paper headed 'Banham' [possibly not all Charles' hand]
-typescript headed 'Giedion SpaceTime and Arch'
-manuscript notes headed 'Scully'
-manuscript notes headed 'Collins Changing Ideal in MA 1965 (reaction to Giedion & space)'
-manuscript notes headed 'Hitchcok Arch. 19th & 20th centuries' with biro sketches
-envelope labelled 'Historians: Pevsner, Banham 1966-1971, Summerson 1981-4, Pei' [empty]
-manuscript headed 'The Failure of Success' including a copy typescript letter from Charles to Mr De Carlo asking to be able to attend the Urbino meeting
-manuscript headed 'Banham Le Corbusier chapter'
-typescript copy letter from Charles to Reyner Banham responding to his criticisms
-manuscript comments [from Reyner Banham], titled by Charles 'Partially a response to Outline?'
-typescript and manuscript headed 'Foreward'
-manuscript letter and notes from Reyner Banham to Charles [letter on headed paper], attached to a typescript headed 'Aalto and some concepts of value
-typescript headed 'Modern Architecture' with manuscript notes [from Reyner Banham] attached
-typescript headed 'History as Myth: 1st revision, Banham notes'.
-typescript and manuscript notes headed 'Modern architecture - the tradition since 1945: a list of architects to be criticised'
-typescript diagram with numerical values applied to architect's names
-typescript headed 'Diagram Relation of American Architects'
-article from Time 2 Aug 1968 titled 'Modern Living'
-article from Newsweek 20 Mar 1967 titled 'The Architects Come Into Their Own', annotated
-article from the International Herald Tribune 29-30 May 1971 titled 'Celebrities Jam Gala Premiere at JFK Center', annotated
-article from The New York Times Magazine 17 Oct 1971 by Paul Goldberger, annotated
-manuscript diagram of architect's names headed 'Camp Non Camp'
-manuscript diagrams
-pages from ROBAJ Jun 1966, 'RIBA Annual Discourse' by Myron Goldsmith, annotated
-folded titled 'John Summerson + Charles Jencks, exchanges over PMC [Post-Modern Classicism] 1981, FSC [Freestyle Classicism] 1982, + TH [Thematic House] 1984 including manuscript letters from Summerson to Charles and typed copies; and copy typescript letters from Charles to Summerson; as well as: typescript headed 'The New Taboo: Ure Chisel'; a leaflet for Das Linz Café; typescript titled 'The Face of the Vernacular' and captions; a sketch labelled 'Validimir - Moscow 19/10/93'; a letter on Little Sparta headed paper from Ian [Hamilton Finlay] regarding the garden scheme; draft typescript letter from Charles on UCLA headed paper to I.M. Pei, 1983 and reply; letter from I.M. Pei to Henry Kewswick regarding Maggie, 2003
-typescript letter from Nikolaus Pevsner on Birkbeck College headed paper to Charles declining to supervise his thesis, and copy typescript reply from Charles; cuttings on Pevsner.
-colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
-folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
-manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
-photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
-cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
-leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
-photocopy of the Jencksiana font
-b&w photograph of the Elemental House
-sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
-typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
-manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
-typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
-manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
-pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
-copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending a symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
-copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
-printed proofs of line drawings
-pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
-poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]
Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Plan and designs for the First Floor, Bathpool and Jacob's Ladder'.
Includes:
-plan of the dining, kitchen and utility areas with pencil annotations labelled 'Terrace House' and pencil sketch of the kitchen units.
-photocopied design labelled 'Gated entrance from House'.
-photocopied plan by Terry Farrell Partnership labelled 'Jacuzzi'.
-whiteprint with coloured pencil by CZWG titled 'Jencks Jacuzzi'
-photocopied section of the Bathpool.
-correspondence between Charles and Ilinca Catacuzino enclosing designs for zodiac signs and giving details of costs. Includes photocopied manuscript notes relating to astrology, tarot and the seasons.
-whiteprint labelled 'Conservatory plans (structural) by Terry Farrell Partnership (folded).
-photocopied design for the garden stair (folded).
-folder of correspondence, meeting notes and invoices between Charles, Matheson Trust Co. Limited, Campbell Zogolovitch, Wilkinson and Gough, Hodgson Brothers, The Alpha Mosaic & Terrazo Company Limited regarding the designs for and work on the Jacuzzi. Includes b&w photographs of the work in progress.
-pen and pencil sketches of doors.
-manuscript pencil notes titled 'Nursery/playroom'.
-pencil designs organised by season and calendar month labelled 'CJ, Farrell, 83'.
-draft plan for kitchen on tracing paper.
-unlabelled whiteprint and pencil sketches on tracing paper showing steps around a tree. One sketch is labelled 'CJ, Nov 81' (folded)
-printed information on the Chinese zodiac.
-pencil and ink drawing of the exterior of the house showing a pool with stones labelled 'CJ. Sept 17, 81; revised Nov 20, 81'.
-whiteprint labelled 'Revised LG.F Kitchen layout' by Terry Farrell Partnership, Aug 81 (folded).
-whiteprint labelled 'Terrace House Fireplace' showing front elevation, plan and details by Michael Graves Architect, 1982, (folded).