Scope and content
Contents of a folder labelled '1980 Biennale/Biennale 1980 Russia etc. 93 slides 4BxW + documents'. Includes:
-colour film strip showing men in a factory/workshop
-plastic strips containing 12 slides, one labelled 'Biennale 1982'
-negative strips [showing
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-photocopied typescript titled ‘Translation: The Tournament’ relating to the XIV Congress of UIA, Warsaw. S. Okojomox, Warsaw-Moscow’.
-manuscript letter from Glazytchev Slava in Moscow regarding translations of Charles’ work, their publication in domus, work with Eugene [Rosenblum] and Mark [Konik] under the auspicises of Artists’ Union and work of others throughout the Soviet Republic with sketch drawings of the buildings.
-publication: Архитектура ИЗДАЕТСЯ СОВМЕСТНО С СОЮЗОМ АРХИТЕКТОРОВ СССР И ГОСГРАЖДАНСТРОЕМ № 16 (500) 2 августа 1981 [Russian language]
-copied typescript document headed ‘Digging up the past: treatment for a 45 minute film’ to document post-modern architect and be presented and co-authored by Charles, by Scott Thomas, 1981; annotated.
-manuscript letter from Suzanne [Frank] at The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; annotated.
-postcard of New York from [illegible] [Stephens], annotated by Charles ‘re Vidler piece’
Centre D’Etudes et de Recherches Architecturales, Paris - Bulletin d’information inter-establissements no 51 Mai 1980 with a paragraph annotated ‘translate’
-guidelines for submissions to the Arts Films Committee
-manuscript letter from Scott [Thomas] regarding the film, including a list of people on the Arts Films Advisory Committee
-typescript letter from Scott Thomas regarding a proposed film on Post-Modernism for a general audience and a copy letter from Carter H Manny at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
-photocopies from an unknown publication, on classicism; annotated
-typescript copy letter from Charles titled ‘Letters to the Editor Re: Classical confusion’ regarding an article by Tony Vidler [1981]
-postcard of a drawing of a building by Hans Robert Hiegel, used as a Christmas Card
-christmas letter from Thomas and [Marina] Smith
-cutting on Ricardo Bofill's Le Palaccio d'Abraxas
-manuscript notes titled ‘The Reurbanisation of Runcorn’ [not Charles’ hand]
-anuscript article ‘The transformation of Chandigarh – Rodrigo Pérez de Arce'
-manuscript letter from Kazuhiro Ishii on Kazuro Ishii Architect & Associates headed paper regarding windows in Charles’ "Post-Modernism book".
-typescript letter from Laurence Booth on Booth/Hansen & Associated headed paper regarding Post Modern Classicism, 1980
-typescript 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, 1979
-manuscript list of architects’ names on Los Angeles: School of Architecture and Urban Planning headed paper
-receipt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art photograph services, 1981
-typescript letter from Eugene Kupper enclosing material for the Venice Biennale, 1980
-typescript letter from Helle Klint asking to feature on of Charles’ houses in a monthly column for Berlingske Tidende, enclosing an example, 1979
-typescript document titled ‘Contemporary Architects: Publication Spring 1979 (London: Macmillan, NYC: St Martin’s) with details of the editor, advisory board and contributors with a covering notes from Muriel Emanuel asking Charles to contribute, 1978
-manuscript lists of architect’s names, titled ‘C.Jencks’ sub-headed Japan, USA, Europe/England
-change of address from Kuro and Chris Fawcett, on the reverse a manuscript list of Japanese architects
-manuscript lists of architects sub headed ‘Japanese metaphysical school + symbolism’, ‘USA historicism, symbolism, [remainder], ‘European historicism, urbanism, vernacular’
-business card for Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri
-photograph of an unidentified man in front of the Holy Trinity [Kingsway] church
-cutting from Building Design 9 July 1982 on the Art and Architecture Action Group at the ICA
-typescript note titled ‘(for Stirling Bayer)’ regarding Lutyens' Midland Bank headquarters.
-leaflet for laboratorio de arquitectura 1982 centro de arte y comunicaión, Viamonte
-L. A Architecture: A publication of the Los Angeles Chapter, American Institute of Architects Vol 7 No 3 Mar 1981 including a mention of Charles lecturing on Post-Modern Classicism at the Pacific Design Center
-Architectural Association School of Architecture Events list 10, Autumn Term 8-10 Dec 1980 including an exhibition on Garagia Rotunda and a lecture on Post-Modern Classicism by Charles
-typescript letter from Romi Khosla on The Grüp New Delhi headed paper, asking if their work was featured in Charles’ book, 1981
-photocopied review of Signs, Symbols and Architecture by Linda groat, sent by Geoffrey Broadbent
-cutting from the International Herald Tribune 21 May 1982 on demographics
-manuscript letter from Humphrey B[illegible] regarding a meeting with Robert on Brown’s Hotel notepaper regarding a meeting with Robert
-cutting from an unidentified publication 'Neo-classical (again)' by Loyd Grossman
-cutting from an unidentified publication [possibly the Maltings Free Press] on Jeremy Dixon with annotations
-photocopy from Casabella No. 470 6/1981 titled 'Post-post....'
-typescript document titled ‘Palladio and the Japanese’
-manuscript letter from Edward Jones 'acting as a messenger for Christian Broza' with some drawings and talking about what movements Charles has left out of his “family tree”
-b&w professional photographs of the Venice Biennale
-cutting of ‘The Presence of the Past’ by Charles in domus 61 [in Italian] with compliments slip read less