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Contents of a folder labelled 'Charles Jencks - Notes on Reading 1950-1961; Coleridge on Imagination, Brooks; Koestler; Korzybski; Gombrich Levi-Strauss [illegible]; Rowe; Alexander; Appreciation for Study'. The folder is also labelled 'Theory'.

The folder comprises predominantly manuscript notes on plain and lined paper. Including notes headed:
-Meaning of Meaning - Richards
-Coleridge on Imagination
-On Coleridge
-Classical Tradition of Unity
-Structure in Art & Science - Richards
-The Act of Creation - Koestler
-Theory of Architecture - Alexander
-Cybernetics and biology
-Korzybski
-typescript titled 'An Instant Guide to Meaning'
-neutra
-typescript titled 'Moretti - Form as Structure'
-typescript titled 'Architecture Since 1945'
-Modern Poetry and the Tradition - Brooks
-Quotes
-Poverty of Historicism - Popper
-Historical Statements and Logical Statements - Bone
-Spender
-Feeling and Form - S. Langer [on Ivor David Balding headed paper]
-cutting from The New York review titled 'A Late Romantic' by Wylie Sypher
-Logic and Criticism - Righter
-Style and Styistics - Warren & Weller
-Arnold
-Theory of Myths - Fryer
-The Structure of Complex Words - Empson
-Gothic Arch. and Scholasticism - Panofsky
-Atttitudes to Cities - Colin Rowe
-Structural Anthropology - Levi-Strauss
-Gombrich & Perception
-Gestalt Theory of Expression
-Vitruvius - Villard - Alberti - Palladio - S.H. Wotten
-M. McCarthy
-draft application form for a United States Government Grant for study abroad, completed in typescript with annotations, 1964
-Attitudes and Assumptions
-typescript titled 'Foreward' with an outline of an exposition on architecture

Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Fax from Penguin UK to Charles confirming the number of copies sold of Modern Movements in Architecture and the process for the reversion of rights and re-publishing, 2000

-Plastic wallet containing: stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a course for 1974-1975 by Charles Jencks)’; typescript diagram with drawing titled ‘Semantic Analysis of Olivetti Training Centre Wing’; off-print of ‘A Semantic Analysis of Stirling’s Olivetti Centre Wing’ by Charles; cuttings from Forum Sep 1970 ‘Student Dorms on a Scottish Coast – Charles Jencks offers a semiological analysis’; stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a book by Charles Jencks)’, annotated; manuscript notes headed ‘Semiotics Architecture’; manuscript notes headed ‘Codes of Architecture’; printed list of forthcoming lecture series organised by Charles, taken from an unidentified publication, annotated [possibly AA]; cuttings from an unidentified publication titled ‘The Language of Architecture’ by Charles; typescript bibliography for a course titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’ by Charles; typescript titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’; ‘Language and Class’ by Paul Medlicott from New Society 5 Jun 1975; ‘The semantics of semiotics’ by Peter Wason and Ormond Uren’ from New Society 26 Dec 1975, annotated; 'The Culinary Triangle' by Claude Lévi-Strauss, New Society 22 Dec 1966, annotated with diagrams; TLS 5 Oct 1973, annotated on pieces by Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Tullio de Mauro, Tzvetan Todorov, Juri Lotman, Stepehn Ullman, Julia Kirsteva, Max Bense, post-it note attached with appointments and telephone numbers; 'Rhetorik und Architektur' by Charles, translated by Paul Kretz, publication not identified.

-fax from Grigor Films with an overview of a potential Channel 4 tv series titled '10 Buildings which changed the world', 2001
-manuscript notes headed 'Pioneers of Modern Movement 1936'
-photocopy from Meaning In Architecture, 1969
-printed-out email from Jos Bosman asking for feedback on his essay 'Reading Meaning in Architecture', annotated, nd
-invitation to the funeral service for Alan Colquhoun, 2012
-printed-out email from Charles to Sylvia Lavin, detailing his background in semiotics ahead of an interview, 2017
-cutting titled 'Hypertext', New Scientist 17 Jun 2006
-printed-out email from Joseph Bedford requesting a phone call relating to Rykwert and Dalibor, nd
-booklet for the Open University course 'Our Conversation with Things and Places', inscribed 1976; inserted: covering letter from Professor Christopher Cornford thanking Charles for dinner.
-photocopied review of Modern Movements in Architecture in The Architects' Journal 26 Mar 1986, Penguin Books clipping service
-correspondence from Penguin Books relating to translations, cover artwork, new editions of Modern Movements in Architecture 1984-1985; letter from Charles regarding errors and corrections
-correspondence from Doubleday regarding Modern Movements in Architecture, including new editions and reversion of rights 1984-1985
-typescript titled' White Paper: The Redevelopment of 390 Park Avenue for Fisher Brothers' with a covering letter from C. Ray Smith requesting a response from Charles in the next issue of Oculus, the monthly newsletter of the New York Chapter of the A.I.A, as Charles has been quoted as a witness in the White Paper; manuscript notes headed 'dictated on phone January 3, 1983' in response.

Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-cutting titled 'Cars without Chaos' from The Listener 22 May 1975, annotated
-cutting from The Sunday Times 25 May 1975 about the village of Debenham
-stapled bundle of cuttings from New Society 1974-1975 relating to town and cities, annotated
-incomplete manuscript notes on cities
-manuscript and typescript notes on Byker, Newcastle
-typescript titled 'Rough outline for Animal Architects' by Charles [probably a script and treatment for a proposed television programme]
-Typescript photocopied program for the seminar: architecture-innertown-government held 2-6 Jun 1975 a T.H. Eindhoven with manuscript notes on reverse
-'Does Post-Modernism Communicate' by Linda Groat and David Canter photocopied from [Progressive Architecture], Dec 1979
-'The past and future of research on meaning in architecture: the case for architectural theory as a basis for future research' by Linda N. Groat, photocopied from Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Conference, 1983
-Book review titled 'Meaning in Architecture: new directions and sources' by Linda Groat, photocopied from Journal of Environmental Psychology 1981:1, including Signs, Symbols and Architecture by Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt and Charles.
-'Measuring the Fit of New to Old' by Linda Groat photocopied from Architecture Nov 1983
-'Public Opinions of Contextual Fit' by Linda Groat photocopied from Architecture Nov 1984

Cardboard sub-folder, annotated on the front with [word counts] and [chapter headings]. Includes:
-manuscript letter from [?Otto von Simson] on Kunsthistorisches Institut, Der Freien Universität Berlin headed paper, thanking Charles for his invitation and discussing the revised German edition of his 'Cathedral book', 1967
-typescript letters from Robert Venturi on Venturi and Rauch, Architects headed paper discussing the publication of an unidentified article, the publication of 'Learning from Las Vegas', his opinion of Charles's issue of Arena and thanking Charles for the copy of Roland Barthes, 1967-1968
-typescript letter from Erwin Panofsky on The Institute for Advanced Study headed paper declining to contribute to 'Meaning in Architecture' due to his age and health, 1966
-manuscript letters from Christian Norberg-Schulz on personal headed paper, regarding his contribution to Meaning in Architecture, 1967
-manuscript letter from Kenneth Frampton regarding a potential contribution to the book on Meaning 1968
-typescript letters from Susan Sontag regarding a potential contribution to a book, 1968
-manuscript postcard and letter from Aldo van Eyck regarding a forthcoming article and photographs, 1967
-typescript letter from EH Gombrich on The Warburg Institute headed paper, commenting on the proofs, 1968
-Typescript titled 'Modern Architecture Symposium (MAS), 8-10 May 1964, Columbia University New York City 'The Decade 1929-1939' with a list of speakers.
-typescript copy letter from Charles to Professor Gombrich inviting him to contribute to a forthcoming publication; typescript prospectus for Meaning in Architecture; typescript titled 'Outline of Meaning in Architecture' annotated with initials
-manuscript letter from Aldo [van Eyck] regarding a drawing of a 'pavilion for sleeping' and responding to the criticisms of his essay in Meaning in Architecture.
-manuscript letter from [?Aldo van Eyck] congratulating Charles on Meaning in Architecture, 1970
-cutting of 'Building His Nest' by Nathan Silver from New Statesman 1 Sep 1967
-cuttings of the letters page from New Society 31 Aug 1967 and 7 Sep 1967, including letters from, Charles and Reyner Banham responding to one another.
-printed drawing titled 'Anatomy of a Dwelling' [François Dallegret]
-typescript titled 'An Instant Guide to Meaning'
-typescript titled 'Semiology - the theory of signs (outline of a lecture by Charles Jencks)' with hand-drawn diagrams and manuscript notes

Black folder with plastic pockets, labelled on the front on blue tape 'ADHOCISM THE CASE FOR IMPROVISATION'. Labelled inside the front cover 'C A JENCKS' on blue tape.

Inside the front pouch:
-manuscript document titled 'The Weird World of Adhocism'
-cards for exhibitions of miniature portraits and pet portraits by Rita Greer [1975]

The folder itself has a mix of items inside the plastic pockets and loose between the pockets. Includes:
-photographic reproductions of historic images
-cuttings from New Scientist
-photograph of Vesnin's Pravda Building annotated 'to illustrate GSSU Modern Movements Series'
-print-out reviews of the re-issued version of Adhocism
-letter from the MIT press enclosing author copies of the re-issue
-cuttings from newspapers
-b&w photographs and cuttings stuck to paper and labelled with typescript and manuscript annotations
-typescript document with manuscript additions titled 'Adhocism: The Transformed Object'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Creation Out of Subsystems'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Evolutionary Series'
-postcard to Charles from Stephen Bayley [2013]
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Art & Equipment'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Archeological City'
-letter from Bob Perry enclosing photographs with examples of humour in architecture in New Zealand
-Bulletin of the Institut de l'Environnement
-flyer for the Second Conference on Twentieth Century Design History, to be held at Middlesex Polytechnic April 1976, with a paper by Tony Wilkins titled The Development of Do-It-Yourself circled
-photostat of an article on architecture education at Goddard College
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: The Ad Hoc Revolution'
-'exquisite corpse' style drawing