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[Loose papers]
-CJA-PTK-10 · File · 1994-1999
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of papers found loose. Includes:
-6 colour photographs [taken at Portrack seminars?] printed on Fujicolor paper, [1994]
-1 colour photograph of Charles speaking to [unidentified man] at a table in a garden [at Portrack?], printed on Konica Long Life 100 paper
-2 colour photographs, printed on Kodak paper showing [unidentified woman, man and child; the woman is wearing a cheongsam-style dress]
-typescript fax sent by Charles [recipient unknown] detailing the participants at and agenda of the Portrack Seminars in the context of a book publishing 'the rewritten papers delivered at the tenth meeting', 1999
-photocopy typescript document with headings: Portrack Seminars July 13-16th.17th?; acceptances; possibles; September 7-10th or 11th; with a list of name and contact details; annotated
-manuscript letter from Ihab Hassan on personal headed paper giving details of his location over the next few months and sending a paper by a graduate student on postodernism which makes use of Charles' work; enclosed: photocopy typescript 'The Postmodern Sublime' by Fevronia Novak, 1994
-photocopy published article by Charles 'The Post-Modern Agenda' [revised version of 'The Values of Post-Modernism', from Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture, 1987].
A+U Architect vs. Critic
CJA-AVC-1 · File · 1980-1985
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'A+U Architect vs. Critic'. Folder contains 1 box of slides [catalogued separately as CJA-AVC-1-a] and also includes:
-colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
-folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
-manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
-photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
-cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
-leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
-photocopy of the Jencksiana font
-b&w photograph of the Elemental House
-sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
-typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
-manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
-typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
-manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
-pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
-copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
-copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
-printed proofs of line drawings
-pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
-poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]
11 Park Walk
CJA-AVC-1-a · Part
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Yellow plastic slide box with transparent plastic lid annotated '11 Park Walk' in red ink. The majority of the slides are labelled 'doorknobs'.
Landform for The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
CJA-EDH-2 · File · 20 Nov 2000
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Comb-bound A3 volume titled 'Landform for The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: A proposal by Charles Jencks, Terry Farrell & Partners; Ian White Associates; 20 November 2000'. Illustrated throughout with colour and b&w illustrations.

Headings includes:
-What landforms would do
-Four schemes compared
-The Stretched S or Serpent
-Portrack Garden and other precedents
-Planning Permission
-Virtual reality simulation
-Construction process

Inserted:
-plastic slide holder with 9 spaces, containing 4 slides; cutting from New Scientist 14 Oct 2006 with an illustration of Chinese paddy fields; colour photograph of paddy fields
-b&w print-out diagram headed 'GPS workshop'
-plastic slide holder with 8 spaces, containing 7 slides
-colour photographs of people visiting Landform UEDA
-coloured in photocopy sketch design
-colour print-out on photographic paper annotated on reverse 'Caro solution model'
-b&w computer model print-out
LPMA - EXTRAS 1977-1991
CJA-LPA-1 · File · 1977-1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'LMPA - EXTRAS 1977-1991'. Includes:
-bundle of photographs, slides and transparencies, some labelled up for reproduction
-loose photographs
-slides in plastic wallets
-contact details for photographers
LPMA - EXTRAS 1977-1991
CJA-LPA-2 · File · 1977-1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'LMPA - EXTRAS 1977-1991'. Includes:
-loose photographs, some marked up for reproduction
-envelope from the Groninger Museum
-typescript titled 'How the building systems work semantically (could include as insert box)' with a diagram
-letter from Claire-Marie Brolly in French, with typescript translation into English, enclosing a reproduction of an illustration from her thesis as a response to reading The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
-strips of transparencies
-manuscript notes headed 'Post-Modern Space + Precedents (50)' with notes for a diagram
-photocopies and cuttings from unidentified publications
-letter of transmittal from Johansen & Bhavnani Architects to Academy Editions, enclosing images of Mummers Theater and Ad-hoc House
-cutting from Building Design 8 October 1999 on Nigel Coates
LPMA - EXTRAS
CJA-LPA-3 · File · 1976-1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'LMPA - EXTRAS'. Includes:
-loose photographs and transparencies, some marked up for reproduction
-Letter of transmittal from Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners sending images of Kwee House
-biographical information and transparencies from Shoei Yoh
-project information from Platou Arkitekter AS, annotated
-project information for the Winton Residence Guest House, annotated
-cuttings from Building Design, annotated
-cutting from The Sunday Times 6 October 1985 on the London Docklands
-letter from Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates to Dr Andreas Papadakis, sending images
-project information for the Allsteel Furniture Showroom, annotated
-project information for the Laure Mallet House, annotated
-cutting from The New York Times Magazine 22 Nov 1987 'The Aulenti Uproar'
-cutting from The New York Times 2 April 1987 on the new Musée d'Orsay
-photocopy of an article on the Guggenheim from the Wall Street Journal 23 March 1987
-cutting from Cobouw, 23 March 1990 [Dutch language]
-folder labelled 'Charles Jencks: Clients copy of return United Kingdom 1968/69' and annotated 'LPMA 1976+ Post-Modernism + Personal Photos 1977-9 containing: postcard sent from Charles to Andreas Papadakis advertising Charles' lecture at UCLA 20 May 1976 titled 'The Language of Modern Architecture'; cutting 'More Modern than Modern' by Charles from Lifespan; negatives and contact sheets.
LPMA EXTRAS - SLIDES 1985-1995
CJA-LPA-4 · File · 1985-1995
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'LPMA EXTRAS - SLIDES 1985-1995' and 'Bunny: LPMA: Contents - Snag List - Index - Notes'.

The folder consists predominantly of slides in plastic wallets; there are also some loose photographs, a small page of manuscript notes, and an annotated cutting rom The New York Times 1 April 1990 on San Francisco's Marriott Hotel.
LPMA - EXTRAS
CJA-LPA-5 · File · [1977-1991]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'LMPA - EXTRAS' and 'LPMA/DROPPED 6th + EXTRAS. Includes:
-loose photographs and transparencies, many marked up for reproduction
-loose slides
-project leaflet for The Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery, London
New Paradigm - Materials 0
CJA-NEW-1 · File · 1966-2001
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled "New Paradigm - Materials 0"

Includes:
-transparencies marked up for publication with tracing paper
-b&w photographs of JFK Airport
-a postcard from Lu Xiao-Wei to Charles and Maggie, showing 'an exterior view of the main building in District Three' thanking them for the Christmas card, 1991
-colour photographs of State of Illinois Center, Chicago
-postcard of Palazzo della Civilità, Rome
-slide labelled 'Graves 7 Dwarfs'
-colour photograph glued to perspex labelled 'Ter herinnering aan het project HKB 1987'
-photocopy of an [Archigram] drawing
-cover of The New Yorker 2 April 1966, attached to cardboard
-'The Emergent Paradigm: Changing Patterns of Thought and Belief' by Peter Schwarz and James Ogilvy Apr 1979, with typescript version and letter from James to Charles inside [found in plastic folder, removed for conservation reasons]
-leaflet for the National Museum of Australia: A celebration of Federation 2001, with a transparency and slide inside
-letter from OMA enclosing images of the ZKM
-printed-out emails regarding images for the 7th edition of the Language of Post Modern Architecture/The New Paradigm in Architecture, including copyright information
-cutting from Archis 1/2001 'The Canyon as Gathering Space' by Aaron Betsky
-published line drawing of St Peter's Square
-print-outs from www.archined.nl on MVRDV
-print outs on photographic paper of images relating to Gherkin building
-print outs on photographic paper of images from Batty and Longley's 'Fractial Cities' (1994)
-print outs on photographic paper of images by Madelon Vriesendorp
-plastic folder containing slides
-cutting from the FT Weekend 1/2 Dec 2001 on Route 66
-poster for 'Practice and Theory: Perspecta and the Fate of Architecture Discourse' at Yale School of Architecture, 2000 [folded] used as a folder for A3 designs for the Media Tower Vienna (former Generali Tower) by Hans Hollein
-envelope labelled 'LPMA PHOTOS IMAGES EVOL TREE 1960-2000 containing proof images [none of the evolutionary tree]
-slides of various covers of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture in english and in translation