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CJA-VBE-3 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
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 1980 Biennale], bag annotated with instructions for printing
-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
Thomas Heatherwick: Making
CJA-RES-AL-B2-2-38 · Item · 2012
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Thames and Hudson

Inserted: press cuttings on Heatherwick, particularly relating to the Garden Bridge project; printed out e-mail from Charles to Thomas relating to the design for Maggie's Leeds.

Heatherwick, Thomas
CJA-RES-AL-B2-2-33 · Item · Jan/Feb 1975
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Inserted:
-town map of Amsterdam
-correspondence with the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven regarding a visit to Holland including proposed lectures
-photocopied articles on Holland
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B2-2-25 · File · [1965-1969]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf.

Includes:
-typescript document titled 'Essays: bibliography of Alison and Peter Smithson - often embodying ideas pertinent to the Team 10 way of thinking'
-manuscript and typescript draft letters from Charles to Alison and Peter Smithson requesting an interview for a book 'Modern Architecture - the Tradition since 1945'
-'The New Brutalism or a clean, well-lighted place' by Robin Middleton [annotated]
-'Without Rhetoric' by Peter Smithson
-manuscript notes by Charles on Team 10, Van Eyck, CIAM, Mars Group, Bakema

Metabolism in Architecture
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R2-9 · Item · 1977
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Studio Vista London

Annotated 'Charles Jencks'.

Includes introduction by Charles. Inserted: negative strips labelled 'Kurokawa pointing at himself CJ photo' and '[illegible] tea hut'; review of the book by Reyner Banham in the TLS 12 August 1977; printed out email from Michael Gibert seeking to clarify statements Charles made in an interview about Kurokawa, with reply from Charles, 2013

Kurokawa, Kisho
Kurokawa: CJ Notes + Images
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R2-1 · File · 1987-2007
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a black box file labelled 'Kurokawa CJ Notes + images'. Includes:
-photograph of Kisho Kurokawa wearing formal traditional japanese clothing including hakama, in an ANA Hotel Tokyo mount
-publicity photographs of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and collection
-computer-generated architectural drawings of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
-annotated photocopy from The Japan Architect of the Hiroshima Modern Museum of Contemporary Art project
-photocopied newspaper cuttings relating to Kurokawa
-press release from the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
-exhibition handout for 現代美術って。。。PART2 exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
-typescript titled 'Towards the Evocation of Meaning' by Kisho Kurokawa
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper
-typescript titled 'Hiroshima Acropolis' by Charles and covering letter sending it to Space Design magazine
-leafleft for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
-letter from Kisho Kurokawa to Charles enclosing a copy of his 'Towards Evocation of Meaning', photographs and axonometric drawings for Charles' article, and an english translation of his 'The Philosophy of Symbiosis' with a request to help with finding a publisher, 1989.
-slides including Kurokawa in front of a traditional Japanese building [possibly with Maggie in the background?], and contemporary interiors, one labelled Roppongi [Prince] Hotel, one labelled TV [illegible], in a München Residenz-Museum slide wallet.
-publication produced by AD as a catalogue for the 'Kisho Kurokawa: Recent Projects - Four Museums' exhibition at the Royal Academy, with papers inserted including: faxed correspondence between Charles and Kurokawa making arrangements for his lecture and symposiums in London, 1993; copy letter from Charles to Kurokawa regarding a possible collaboration with the BBC and NHK, and requesting material for the second edition of Architecture Today/Current Architecture, 1987; manuscript notes on plain paper; annotated typescript titled 'A Visit To The Mirror' by Charles; letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] to Charles thanking him for the lunch party and giving news of the symposium on the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, and Charles' copy reply referencing the symposium, news of publications and of the proposed TV series, 1989; typescript document titled 'Tokyo: TV for BBC' with manuscript notes on reverse; manuscript notes on pink and green plain paper with notes from Kurokawa, Peter Popham, Rem Koolhaas, Ben Waley, Sandy Wilson, alongside a fax with details of the International Forum on Learning From Tokyo, 1993; programme of events 12 June 1993 at the Royal Academy including The Academy Forum and the Annual Academy Architecture Lecture; Academy Forum folder containing list of Learning From Tokyo forum participants, press releases and 'New Wave Japanese Architecture' by Kisho Kurokawa; poster for a conference titled 'Tokyo: Model or Anti-Model' to be held in Copenhagen 1994; typescript titled 'Toward Evocation of Meaning' by Kiso Kurokawa with a post-it note annotation 'for The Observer'; outline of World Architecture Exhibition 1998 Nara press release; annotated typescript titled 'Philosophy of Symbiosis, New York May 3 1998, Kurokawa 1'.
-photographs and project details for the Koshi Kaikan Center
-photographs and project details for the Japanese Studies Institute, Thammasat University
-photographs and project details for the Japan-German Centre Berlin
-material on the city planning project, Astana, Kazakhstan from Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates
-folder with a post-it note annotation 'All Maggie's Swansea?' containing business cards for staff at Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates; hand-drawn and computer generated garden and buildings drawings; manuscript notes; Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates scheme design documents for Maggie's Centre Swansea, 2007.
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R1-8 · File · 1976-2007
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a black box file labelled 'KUROKAWA 1976-2007 (+ images)'
Includes:
- Kodak Professional box labelled 'Nagoya Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Kiso Kurokawa Architect and Associates' containing labelled transparencies
- Kodak Professional box labelled 'Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiso Kurokawa Architect and Associates' containing labelled transparencies
- Kodak Professional box, unlabelled, containing transparencies of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
-cuttings and photocopies relating to Kurokawa, including obituaries
-2001 New Year's card from Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates
-empty envelope from Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates
-printed folder for the Japan 2000 events at the Art Institute of Chicago, containing a press release and images of the Kisho Kurokawa exhibition
-exhibition guide for Kisho Kurokawa retrospective exhibition: from the age of the machine to the age of life' at the RIBA Architecture Centre, 1998 [two copies]
-private view card for 'Kisho Kurokawa architecte' at the Centre Georges Pompidou
-cuttings from Building Design 1988 on Japan
-copy of Far Eastern Economic Review 16 Jun 1988, headed 'Japan Reconstructs'
-copy of Far Eastern Economic Review 30 Jul 1987 headed 'Tokyo Bay: fulfilling the future'
-annotated cuttings on the Sony Tower
-Letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] to Charles regarding transparencies and discussing skyscrapers, 1979
-colour transparency of the Sony Tower Osaka 1975
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R1-7 · File · 1988-2003
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a red box file labelled 'KUROKAWA CJ notes + images etc KUROKAWA'
Includes:
-transparencies from Kisho Kurokawa Architect and Associates of the National Bunraku Theater and Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
-brochure for The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama/Wakayama Prefectural Museum; inserted: brochure for the Nara Palace site (平城宮); booklet titled '作品:和歌山県立美術館 和歌山県立博物館 The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama/Wakayama Prefectural Museum, プロジェクト:K.L. インターナショナル・エアポート計画案 K.L. International Airport Terminal Building Complex, 論文:アブストラクト・シンボリズムII Abstract Symbolism II by Kisho Kurokawa [Japanese language] - inserted inside this is a fax from Kurokawa inviting Charles to visit Wakayama and an english translation of 'Abstract Symbolism I, II, III' by Kurokawa heavily annotated by Charles, plus manuscript notes; Wakayama Prefecture sightseeing guide; NARA/TOTO World Architecture Triennale open division 1995 booklet; Japanese language newspaper [建設通信新聞] from 19 May 1995 folded to a page on Kurokawa
-empty envelope from Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
-publicity photographs and computer printed drawings of buildings by Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
-letter from Kurokawa enclosing photographs and drawings and expressing regrets Charles won't be able to visit this Autumn, 1987
-publicity photographs of the Nagoya Municipal Museum of Modern Art
-booklet titled '作品:パシフィック・タワー Pacific Tower シロトピア記念休憩所扇観亭 Shirotopia Memorial Park Rest House Senkantei アブストラクト・シンボリズム Abstract Symbolism' by Kisho Kurokawa [Japanese language]: Inserted: project information sheets and transparencies for Ehime Prefectural Museum of General Science, the Museum of Modern Art Wakayama and Wakayama Prefectural Museum, Kuala Lumper International Airport Terminal Complex, Toshiba IHI Pavilion, Fukui City Museum of Art; manuscript notes on Kurokawa; typescript titled 'Abstract Symbolism'
-catalogue for the Contemporary Architect Exhibition III, part of the World Architecture Triennale Nara, 1998: Inserted: business card for a staff writer at Asahi Shimbun; programme for the World Architecture Triennale Symposium and Lecture Series, faxes to Charles from Percy Weatherall on Hongkong Land Limited headed paper making arrangements to meet; manuscripts note on 'Nara - the city of wood' variously on plain paper, Dentu Tec Inc paper and Mitsui Garden Hotel Nara headed paper; business card for Hisao Kohyama; faxes confirming arrangements for the Architecture Triennale Nara; letter from Kurokawa to Charles [signed] thanking him for the dinner party and discussing organising a 'non-linear group', 1998
-New Year's Card from Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates to Charles, 2003
-booklet titled 'project: New Tokyo Plan, 2025' by Kisho Kurokawa with a colour photograph inside
-correspondence between Kurokawa and Charles regarding the World Architecture Exhibition 1998 Nara, as well as mentioning lunches, symposiums and other meetings, 1990-1992
-typescript titled 'Kurokawa' with manuscript notes on reverse
-photocopy 'Foreword: Charles Jencks' for a book by Kurokawa, with a press cutting relating to a Kurokawa design in Paris
-New Near's Card from Kiso Kurokawa architect & associates, 1993
-letter from Kurokawa [signed] to Charles recommending books by Baudrillard, 1989
-guest list for a dinner party at Kurokawa's residence, 1988
-letter from Kurokawa [signed] to Charles, thanking him for the photos of himself [Kurokawa] at the Itsukushima Shrine, annotated with draft reply, 1988
-printed text by Kisho Kurokawa titled 'the Philosophy of Symbiosis: from internationalism to interculturalism', annotated
-manuscript notes
-guest list for a lecture by Kisho Kurokawa titled 'The philosophy of symbiosis - from the age of the machine to the age of life' given as part of Japan 2001 at the RSA with Charles' manuscript notes
-manuscript notes headed 'Kurokawa Eco-architecture/Eco-cities March 20th'
-document outlining the World Architecture Exhibition 1998 Nara
-leaflet for 'Celebration and Contradiction: A Japan 2001 event' held by Tate Britain in association with Kingston University.
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-18 · Item · 1992-2004
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. It consists of photocopied correspondence relating to the Anglo-Japanese exchange program and lectures. Including:
-itinerary for Sir Michael and Lady Hopkins in Japan 1995
-correspondence between RIBA and the Japan Institute of Architects
-itinerary for Toyo Ito's visit to London
-correspondence between Charles and RIBA setting up the lecture series
-Jencks Award 2004 summary of judging panel discussion
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-17 · Item · 1976-1984
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-English language guide for the Roppongi Prince Hotel opening September 1984, designed by Kisho Kurokawa
-letters page from Building Design 25 May 1984
-建築家 4 1976: The Japan Architect
-typescript titled 'The Architecture of Symbiosis' and annotated "toword [sic] inter-culturalism" and 'Kisho Kurokawa" with manuscript notes on reverse
-typescript titled 'Tidal currents from Post-Modernism'
-manuscript notes on Inter Design '84 Sapporo headed paper
-manuscript notes titled 'Modern Culture,Post-Modern Culture + What will come next?' on pink plain paper
-letter from The Japan Foundation offering a Short-Term Visitors' Grant, September 1984
-information on the Japan Inter Design Conference including a list of members
-tentative schedule for Charles attending Inter Design '84 Sapporo
-postcard from Kazuhiro Ishii Architect & Associates sent to Charles at 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript titled 'Le Poétique in Architecture: beyond smeiotics' by Kisho Kurokawa
-typescript titled 'Karakuri: the metastructural machine' by Kisho Kurokawa with manuscript notes on reverse