Publication celebrating the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Loose papers inside front cover includ:
-manuscript notes
-press release on the Olympic Art and Sport contest
-cuttings
Publication celebrating the presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Loose papers inside front cover includ:
-manuscript notes
-press release on the Olympic Art and Sport contest
-cuttings
Contents of a folder labelled 'Olympics'.
Includes:
Cuttings
Photocopied cuttings on the effect of the Olympics on Athens
Typescript document titled 'The Golden Age of the Olympics: Sport-Culture Forum, International Olympic Committee, Laussane June 6, 1997' by Charles
Typescript document titled 'The Golden Age of the Olympics: Laussane June 6, 1997' by Charles, annotated
Envelope containing a programme for the Forum Sport-Culture meeting June 1997
Letter from Charles to Louis Monreal with thoughts after the conference, June 1997
Correspondence with the International Olympic Committee regarding participation in the Sport-Culture Forum
Manuscript notes
Typescripts titled 'The Olympics Approaches the Golden Age: The Culture of the Best: Crisis, Danger and Opportunities' with annotations
Exhibition guide for the Olympic Museum Lausanne
Time code sheets relating to unspecified video tapes
Typescript titled 'Speech given by President Samaranch in 1995: Culture, an integral part of Olympism', annotated
Typescript titled 'Charles Jencks' First Take: Olympics as the Ultimate Metaphor'
Fax listing travel arrangements for Lausanne
Manuscript graphs
Photocopies from an unknown book describing statistics and the measurement of growth
Printed out article 'Golden Egg or Fools; Gold? American Olympics Commercialism and the IOC' by Robert Knight Barry, annotated
Photocopied pages from dictionaries and encyclopedias
Typescript document titled 'Olympics: notes from lunch with Luis Feb 19 1997'
Manuscript notes
Typescript document titled 'Notes for Luis Monreal-Charles Jencks telephone March 4 1997 re: The Post-Modern Labyrinth.
Contents of a folder labelled 'Farrell-Jencks Letters 1978-1983'.
The file comprises letters between Maggie and Charles, Terry Farrell and staff at the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership and Terry Farrell Partnership. Letters from Terry Farrell and his firm form the majority of the file; there are also some copy letters from Maggie and Charles, as well as photocopied correspondence from other parties, notes taken at meetings (manuscript and typescript) and a few draft designs. Many of the letters received from Terry Farrell/Terry Farrell Partnership have been annotated or have sketches on the reverse.
Topics covered include:
-programme of work
-builders and tradesmen
-fees and costs of work
-solar tempering
-planning consent
-program of work
-insurance
-reaction of neighbours to the designs and work
-cost/progress reports
-Venice Biennale
-request from Farrell for a name for the house
-credit for the designs
-problems arising due to working methods
-Charles' role as architect and client
-proposals for completion of works
Includes pages torn from Sunday Times Magazine 16 January 1983 with an article on Terry Farrell by Deyan Sudjic including discussion of the unfinished Jencks's house; photocopies of an Astragal piece in the AJ 19 May 1982 regarding the building work on 19 Lansdowne Walk and subsequent correspondence; incomplete manuscript notes (headed 3 and 4) regarding credit for the designs for the house.