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            159 Archival description results for Architecture

            CJA-TCH-a-43 · File · nd
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Plans - Designs - Sketches: Lily's Room - Lilies; Bathroom; Floor plans'.

            Includes:
            -whiteprint plan of Lily's Room, coloured in with coloured pencil (folded)
            -whiteprint plan of Nan's Room, coloured in with coloured pencil (folded)
            -photocopy design for the Room of Doubles with pen annotations
            -whiteprint plan of the kitchen with appliances indicated (folded)
            -photocopies plan of Nan's bathroom with pencil annotations
            -pencil perspective sketch of the Bathpool
            -photocopy sketch of decorative elements of Indian Summer
            -photocopy perspective sketch of Winter and Spring
            -photocopy sketch designs for furniture in the Architectural Library
            -photocopy sketch of designs for the Moonwell
            -photocopy sketch of designs for Jacob's Ladder labelled 'CJ Dressing Room'
            -pencil and coloured pencil sketch with measurements of the Sundial Arcade
            -photocopy plan by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Main Bedroom Plan' dated 20 Apr 1982 with detailed list of work to be done across the house handwritten in pencil on reverse and titled 'Punch List'.
            -photocopied designs for Lilies by various artists from an unidentified publication
            -pencil sketches of lilies
            -pencil perspective sketch of the Bathpool with design for bathroom cabinet
            -pencil design for a mirror and sink titled 'Shower bathroom'
            -pencil plan titled 'MK's Study'
            -pencil design with measurements for a bookcase
            -bundle of papers with a sheet labelled '2 Themes and an Allegory: The Thematic House'. Includes photocopy typescript document titled 'The Thematic House - The Matic How See' regarding the passage of time and listing 15 themes in the house; pencil manuscript notes titled 'Foursquare Room'; typescript notes on Los Angeles; School of Architecture and Urban Planning notepaper titled 'Allegory: MK. Architecture Defeated/Architecture Triumphant'.
            -pencil drawings of birds and flowers
            -pencil plan of the Bathpool titled 'Main Bedroom Bathroom'
            -pencil design for the bed and desk in Lily's Room
            -whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Cabinets & Kitchen' Aug 1981 (folded)
            -whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing First Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
            -whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing Second Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
            -whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing Lower Ground Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
            -pencil and coloured pencil sketches of the Sundial Arcade with notes; one page is on the reverse of a draft submission to the International Design Yearbook [submission date 1 Dec 1984]
            -pen sketches of Egyptian wall paintings titled 'Sun well'
            -pen sketch plan on tracing paper showing the ground floor
            -photocopied final drawing for Lily's Room, Spoonglyphs, Architectural Library and Bookhouses
            -biro drawing
            -pencil notes and sketch titled 'Lily's Room' with names of lilies
            -pen and pencil plans and sketches for Lily's Room, including measured plan dated 31 July 1982 and initialled 'M'
            -biro sketches for intertwining C/J/M/L initials
            -photocopied lily designs from unknown publications
            -pencil sketch on tracing paper labelled 'Lily's Room'
            -sketches for lilies [ON LOAN]

            CJA-TCH-a-44 · File · [1980-1983]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Ground Floor; Winter Spring rejects; Sundial rejects'

            Includes:
            -b&w photographs of clay head, one labelled 'Early Spring'
            -colour slides of the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture by Penelope Jencks
            -pencil designs for furniture
            -pencil designs on tracing paper for seating in Spring
            -photocopy elevations of the Spring fireplace
            -typescript list of marble colours for the Spring and Winter fireplaces on Michael Graves headed paper
            -photocopy design for astrological symbols
            -photocopy titled 'Jencks Fireplace: wall stencil' with colour key, and used stencils
            -photocopy of Botticelli's Primavera from an unknown publication
            -typescript 'Sculptural Program for Spring Fireplace'
            -whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Spring Fireplace: Terrace House', 1983, folded
            -manuscript letter from [Penelope Jencks] to Charles regarding sculpture costs on the back of a photocopy letter relating to the Morison Monument
            -typescript notes on Winter and Hephaestus
            -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to Hephaestus
            -pencil plans for terrace seating in the Architectural Library
            -pencil sketch plan on tracing paper
            -b&w polaroid photographs of Spring annotated in pen with numbers and attached to a piece of paper. Pencil annotations on the paper regarding the use of the photographs
            -whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Terrace House Fireplace, Mar 1982', folded. Two copies, one has the bottom corner cut out but still with the whiteprint, the other has some pencil annotations
            -whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Terrace House: Survey - Winter Chimneybreast', Nov 1981, folded. Two copies, one has a fireplace drawn on in pencil.
            -pencil and pen designs for seating in the Sundial Arcade
            -pencil manuscript notes titled 'Hephaestus Program'
            -copy letters from Charles to Michael Graves regarding commissions for the fireplaces and possible sculptors for Spring
            -colour photograph of an unidentified sculpture
            -pencil sketch on tracing paper of the ceiling in Winter
            -heavily annotated Ground Floor plan with alternative room arrangements and notes of problems
            -sundial diagram by Mark Lennox-Boyd with covering note

            Thematic House
            CJA-TCH-a-45 · File · nd [1980-1984]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House' and relating to the London Columns and Room of Doubles.

            Includes:
            -prints on photographic paper of computer-generated column designs with numbers
            -photocopy designs for the Room of Doubles, coloured in with coloured pencil
            -photocopy from an unknown publication of a decorative column
            -photocopy designs for the London Columns
            -colour photograph of an ornately decorated room annotated on reverse 'Sala Terena' [possibly Sala Terrena, Vienna]

            The Jencks Suite
            CJA-TCH-a-46 · File · 24 Dec 1983
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Ink drawings, watercolours and typescript commentary by Ian Hamilton Finlay of proposals for the garden. The designs include: Sundial, Benches, Herms, Obelisk and Roman Fragments.

            The designs are presented in a series of folded cards, numbered 1; 2; 2a; 3; 4; 4a; 5; 4a ,5a; 5a; 6; 6a; 7; 8; 9; 10; 10a. Some of the designs and typescript documents have come loose from the cards.

            Finlay, Ian Hamilton
            CJA-TCH-a-49 · File · 1980
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            7 whiteprint designs for 19 Lansdowne Walk; 1 design on tracing paper; 1 A4 paper annotated 'Thematic House - Bill Reed'.

            The whiteprints consist of:
            -Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, First Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
            -Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, Second Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
            -Terry Farrell Partnership, Cabinets & Kitchen, Aug 1981 [two copies]
            -Farrell- Grimshaw Partnership, Section Thro' Annex, April 198[0] [damaged]

            The tracing paper design is unlabelled but relates to the Sundial Arcade.

            Farrells
            CJA-TCH-a-5 · File · 1978-1979
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Engineering Report'.

            Includes:
            -Unlabelled perspective drawings (folded)
            -Annex Plans by Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership June 1979 with pen annotations (folded)
            -felt tip pen on tracing paper labelled 'Rear Elevation; Jencks' House Nov '78 (folded)
            -comb-bound printed report by ACRAED titled 'A Feasibility Study of Passive Solar Heating for the Jenks House 19 Lansdown Walk, London March 1979' [sic] including 8 options for insulation and glazing of the house and conservatory with a comparison of predicted heating loads and costs.
            -Notes in ink on tracing paper titled 'Design Solutions + Performance Analysis?' mainly regarding insulation, heating and solar energy collection (folded)
            -calculation sheets from David French & Partners labelled 'preliminary' detailing loading calculations, with ink sketches on reverse

            [Elevations]
            CJA-TCH-a-50 · File · nd [1977-1979]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            9 pen drawings on tracing paper labelled as follows:
            1 - Side Elevation : Structure
            Side Elevation : Ideas - 1
            Side Elevation : Ideas - 2
            1 - Rear Elevation : Structure
            2 - Rear Elevation : Structure
            Rear Elevation : Ideas - 1
            Rear Elevation : Ideas - 2
            Rear Elevation : Ideas - 3
            Rear Elevation : Ideas - 4

            The drawings labelled 'structure' each have a key showing 'Existing openings - to be left', 'Existing openings - to be filled in' and 'New Openings proposed'. The drawings labelled 'ideas' are alternative proposals for the West and Rear elevations.

            [Rear elevation]
            CJA-TCH-a-51 · File · nd [1978-1984]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Photocopied designs for the rear elevation, showing the two conservatory windows, the Bathpool window and the garden stairs. Some of the designs have been shaded with coloured pencil.
            [Thematic House]
            CJA-TCH-a-53 · File · nd [1978-1984]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Unlabelled bundle of pen, pencil and photocopy drawings. Includes a plan of Winter/Spring, designs for the Sundial Arcade, and a page of photocopied drawings labelled '1st ideas 18 June 79'.
            Themes
            CJA-TCH-a-7 · File · 1978-1984
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Themes'.

            Includes:
            -colour polaroid of the Cosmic Oval
            -correspondence between Charles and Barbara Hoyle regarding Sir Fred Hoyle's contributions to the house
            -program for the Entrance Ellipse
            -correspondence between Charles and D McNally at the University of London Observatory, regarding an introduction to Fred Hoyle and new research in astronomy
            -manuscript and photocopied lettering designs
            -cuttings from Country Life 14 July 1983 regarding Villa Kerylos, French Riviera
            -typescript with manuscript alterations title 'The Thematic House'
            -astrological designs on tracing paper
            -photocopied typeface designs and details of a course on letter design for architects
            -colour, b&w photographs and floor plans of the [National Gallery of Art, Washington]
            -I.M. Pei & Partners program and statistics and press release for the National Gallery of Art [Washington] Expansion
            -manuscript notes on the National Gallery of Art, the Willow Tea Rooms, temples, Edzell castle
            -design for the sink in the Cosmic Loo
            -notes on the word 'cosmos' and for a frieze
            -contact sheet and negatives of built-in furniture within the house
            -manuscript notes listing rooms in the house and columns labelled 'drawings, sketches notes etc: what we have', 'Photographs: what we have' and 'What we need' dated 14 Dec 1984. There are coloured dots to indicate Maggie and Charles' preferences.
            -cutting from the Guardian 'The House that Jencks built' 1984 and photocopies
            -typescript notes titles 'Cultural History July 25th 1984 MK CK WS' relating to the frieze
            -news cuttings on astronomy
            -typescript notes titled 'Cultural Time' with manuscript annotations listing historical figures
            -typescript notes titled 'Seventeen Themes of the Thematic House The Matic How See' divided into general, historical & architectural and personal
            -printed typescript document titled 'Program for the Entrance Ellipse - The Cosmic Egg and Cultural History by Charles Jencks' with manuscript annotations and sketches on reverse.
            -manuscript and typescript draft lists of themes
            -typescript document titled 'William Stok December 2 1984: Thoughts on the Mural' with a manuscript sketch at the bottom of the page
            -typescript documentitled 'Allegory MK: Architecture defeated; architecture triumphant'.
            -manuscript quotations
            -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the personification of architecture
            -pencil sketches on tracing paper of doors, with photocopies
            -incomplete typescript document titled 'The Thematic House: Charles Jencks'
            -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the symbolism of the seasons
            -typescript and manuscript notes titled 'Future Pavilion' with aphorisms about the future
            -photocopy typescript article titled 'The Thematic House (A brief Summary); Charles Jencks'.
            -typescript letter from Mark Girouard sending captions [not included] and returning the slides and transparencies
            -typescript notes on Autumn, Aphrodite, Artemis and Spring
            -horoscopes from Vogue June 1972
            -typescript notes titled 'Thoughts on Reading E.H. Gombrich 'The Museum: Past, Present and Future' in Ideals and Idols, Phaidon, Oxford 1979'
            -pencil and ink sketch frieze designs
            -colour polaroid photograph of the Bathpool
            -receipt from Harriet Wynter Ltd for an Orrery and colour reproduction labelled 'This is the ceiling of the famous planetarium built by Eise Eisinga'
            -letter from D McNally at the University of London regarding the entrance ellipse and returning Charles' program (attached) and regarding introductions to Sir Fred Hoyle
            -pencil lettering designs
            -typescript notes titled 'Museum of Cultural History'
            -private view card for 'Ornament and Decoration: Architectural Drawings by Arthur Brown Jr and Bakewell & Brown' at Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, with manuscript annotations
            -colour polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval