File 2 - Biennale original documents

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CJA-VBE-2

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Biennale original documents

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Contents of a folder labelled 'Biennale original documents - Biennale 1980'
Includes three slides boxes as well as:
-colour transparency strip
-leaflet titled 'Prima, Mostra Internazionale di Architettura' [bilingual Italian/English)
-pencil drawings and diagrams
-ink and coloured pencil drawing attached to foamboard showing a pencil and a book labelled ‘all the wasms have become isms’
-room layout sketch with explanation
-La Biennale di Venezia headed paper
-press cuttings
-typescript reproduced pamphlet titled ‘Post-Modern Architecture’ with a text by Charles and lists of slides. Multiple versions with corrections, annotations and alterations to the slides list
-copy manuscript letter to 'Pete’' regarding his symposium at the Venice Biennale
-photocopied typescript documents from the Architecture Department, La Biennale di Venezia, including lists of names of architects with manuscript annotations
-manuscript notes
-photocopied manuscript lists of names with Charles’ annotations
-photocopied typescript document headed ‘Giuseppe Galasso’ regarding the role of Architecture in the Biennale
-photocopied plans, some with manuscript annotations
-correspondence with the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco requesting a set of the slides, with Charles’ annotations regarding reply, and typescript copy reply
-manuscript notes of architects names under categories; one page headed USA
-photocopy of the Evolutionary Tree
-manuscript letter from 'Kitty & Ned' enclosing an article from New York
-topographic plan of Milan from Domus 506, gennaio 1972
-photocopied sketches
-typescript document titled 'Program of the Façade in the Venice Biennale/Programma Relativo alla Facciata Nella Mostra Della Biennale'
-typescript titled ‘The Counter-Reformation in Architecture: Reflections on the 1980 Venice Biennale’ by Charles with manuscript annotations
-photocopied letter from Paolo Portoghesi thanking Charles for the material concerning the 'Mosque of London’ and inviting him to be on the experts committee for the Venice Biennale
-typescript letter from Paolo Portoghesi with further details about the Biennale, an Italian translation of Charles’ book and sending photos of the Mosque.
-manuscript notes of architects names under categories; page headed Japan

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