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[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B4-5-24 · File · [1997]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of documents found on the shelf in an 'ANYHOW 12 13 14 June 1997 Neitherland Architecture Institute - Rotterdam' branded folder.

Includes:
-typescript [fax] from Charles to Cynthia Davidson sending his 'short piece'and giving his reflections on the conference, 1997 with typescript titled 'Time -- Information -- Numbers' by Charles
-typescript fax from Charles to Cynthia and Peter thanking them for the conference and describing his visit to Lille with Rem and Madelon, 1997
-typescript [faded] fax from Cynthia thanking Charles for his contribution to the conference and inviting him to submit a piece for Anyhow, 1997
-print-out from www.nai.nl 'Anyhow: Theoretical Reflections: Reports by Hilde Heynan from AnyHOW, annotated
-schedule for Anyhow speakers and guests, annotated
-faxes [faded] from Cynthia Davidson on Anyone Corporation headed paper to Charles with arrangements for the Rotterdam conference, 1997
-manuscript notes headed 'Vitalism'
-leaflet for the Nederlands Architectuurinstitut exhibition program
-manuscript notes headed 'Rem', on the reverse of a handouts from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
-Anyhow: A Short Bibliographical Selection' annotated
-manuscript notes headed 'Beatriz Colomina'
-manuscript notes headed 'Tschumi'
-leaflet for 'Egotectur' at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
-Rotterdam 1997 Information Guide

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

CJA-RES-AL-B13-4-45 · Item · 1997
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Published by Academy Editions. Edited by Charles and Karl Kropf.

Includes the following chapters by Charles: The Volcano and the Tablet (introduction); Semiology and Architecture; Adhocism (with Nathan Silver); The Rise of Post Modern Architecture; Towards a Radical Eclecticism; 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture.

Inserted: handwritten fax from Madelon Vriesendorp to Sven Verbruggen titled 'Answer: What is the meaning of St. Jerome reading Rem Koolhaas'; handwritten fax from Madelon Vriesendorp to Charles enclosing the 'explanation I gave a thesis student from Belgium about the St Jerome picture'; typescript of fax paper titled 'Additions to the list of entires for 'Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture'; postcard advertising a symposium titled 'What Happened to the Architectural Manifesto?' to be held at Columbia University, 18 Nov 2011.

Jencks, Charles Alexander
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-5-39 · File · [1999-2015]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-A4 flyers for The Iconic Building
-photocopy of 'Landform architecture: emergent in the nineties' by Charles [unidentified publication]
-flyer for 'Appropriating Soane' at the RA, 2 Dec 1999 with Charles as Chairman
-advert for Critical Modernism taken from domus 943, Jan 2011
-photocopied drawings of draft covers for The Story of Post-modernism
-cutting of an article titled 'Chaos Theory' from the Independent Magazine on Frank Gehry