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Japanese Architecture
-CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-11 · Item · 1984-2001
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a box folder labelled 'Japanese Architec-ture'.
Includes:
-Charles' name badge for Inter Design '84 Sapporo, attached to a folded piece of paper with manuscript notes
-letter from Etsuko Minamino, thanking Charles for dinner and enclosing photographs of Charles taking part in a panel and with unidentified people [1992]
-ticket for 厳島神社 [Itsukushima shrine] with a note written on reverse
-leaflet for Hilltop Hotel Tokyo
-letter from the Chief Executive of Japan 2001 enclosing a list of possible events [1999]
-letter from Shin Takamatsu to Andreas Papadakis confirming he is preparing transparencies
-envelope containing unlabelled transparencies
-letter from Shin Takamatsu Architect & Associates regarding a publication being produced by a Swiss publisher
-review by Richard J Samuels of Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons, annotated, from an unidentified publication
-folder with a business card for Tom Heneghan attached
-article from The Time 17 Apr 2001 by Rosemary Righter on Japan
-printed out e-mail from Makoto Sei Watanabe regarding their dinner and his recent works
-letter from Kengo Kuma [signed] sending a special edition of l'ARCAEDIZIONI, 2000
-A4 flyer/handout for an exhibition 'The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki at the V&A, 2001
-covering letters from Weatherhill books sending various publications for review, with manuscript notes
-letter from the World Architecture Exposition, 1998, Nara, regarding expenses, 1994
-letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] discussing a proposal for a television programme, 1987
-World Architecture Exposition, 1998, Nara publication Triennara 1994.3 No. 2 [Japanese/English]
-plastic folder labelled 'British/Japanese scholarship' containing letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] regarding plans for Nara and various publications, 1991, with reply annotated; letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] thanking Charles for 'The Post-Modern Reader' and making plans to be in London; typescript list of names and addresses for architects in japan, with annotations and business cards attached; leaflet for Fairmont Hotel Tokyo
-invitation to participate in the World Architecture Triennale, Nara, 1995 and various booklets for the Trriennale
-letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] as producer of the World Architecture Exhibition 1998 Nara inviting Charles to be a board member, 1989
-invitation card for the Royal Academy of Arts Japanese Culture Evening 1999 including a lecture by Professor Shuji Takashina, with manuscript notes loose inside
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Japan 2001' and 'Channel 4'
-typescript list of major proposals for Japan 2001 events with annotations
-typescript titled 'summary of the slides shown by Professor Suzuki', annotated
-catalogue for 'Bridges' the Daiwa Foundation Anglo-Japanese Visual Arts Touring Show, inserted: faxes and correspondence relating to Japan 2001; the Ango-Japanese Annual Lecture with RIBA; and the 2000 Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture
-postcard advertising an exhibition of Shin Takamatsu at the GA Gallery, Tokyo 11 Nov-17 Dec 1989
-folder labelled 'Master Plan: Silkroad Town 21: World Architecture Exposition 1998 Nara' containing: heavily annotated typescript titled 'Historical/Anti-Historical City: Gold Medal Address 1992' by Charles, with manuscript notes on the reverse; photocopy of 'The Public, The Price and the Sacred' by Charles Correa from Daedelus Fall 1989; printed publication for the 1998 World Architecture Exposition; leaflets for the Nara Daibutsu and Hōryūji Temple; business cards; currency exchange and hotel receipts; photocopies descriptions of architecture projects in Japan; manuscript notes on a variety of different papers relating to Japanese architects; correspondence regarding corrections of spelling mistakes in minutes and Charles' lecture at Naras; leaflet for 'The Desiring eye: reviewing the Slow House Diller + Scofidio ディラー＋スコフィディオのスローハウス' at Gallery Ma; leaflets for the Nara City Museum of Photography; トリエンナール奈良’92 brochure; letter notifying Charles he is to receive the Gold Medal with draft manuscript reply; fax from Kisho Kurokawa informing Charles that he is to receive the Gold Medal; fax detailing arrangements for the Contemporary Architectural Symposium, 1998; official correspondence from the World Architecture Exposition 1998 Nara with arrangements for Charles' stay; letter from Charles to Kisho Kurokawa regarding plans for an architectural museum at UCLA; partially used line notepad.
[Loose papers]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-2-16 · Item · [c1965-2013]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of loose papers including:
-typescript document titled 'AA Adhoc lecture 24 October 2013' with an overview of the content and a biography, and Charles' manuscript notes for the same on the reverse of printed-out e-mails making arrangements for the lecture
-negatives and contact sheet prints of images used in Adhocism and furniture, possibly at Charles' Wimpole Street flat
-arrangements for an event at the V&A with Charles, Nathan Silver and Martino Gamper
-contract with MIT Press for the publication of the revised version of Adhocism
-correspondence and notes from meetings between Nathan Silver, Charles and Roger Conover regarding the revised version of Adhocism
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism introduction material' with annotations
-typescript corrections to colour proofs
-print-out of a [Wikipedia] article on Matera
-typescript document titled 'Descriptive terms and neologisms we've used in Adhocism NS 24 Jul 12'
-typescript document titled 'Notes on rereading Adhocism: The case for improvisation, 1972 for CJ from NS 22 Jul 12 and INCOMPLETE'
-print-out of a [Wikipedia] article on the platypus
-slides in plastic wallets
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-31 · File · 2009-2011
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a plastic folder [removed for conservation reasons]. Includes:
-invitation to the opening of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the V&A
-reviews of 1:1 - Architects build small spaces at the V&A
-typescript document titled 'The Canons of Post-Modernism 2' by Charles with annotations
-manuscript notes on the reverse of a printed out email making arrangements for an event at the V&A titled 'Defining Postmodernism'
-reviews of Radical Postmodernism: Architectural Design' edited by Charles and FAT
-interview with Charles on the Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A in the RA Magazine
-printed letter to the editor of the Architectural Review from Charles
-plastic envelope containing printed out composite images titled 'The Leviathan sunk by the critics: the truth speaks, the critic smiles' with figures including Jane Jacobs, Hannah Arendt, Aung Sann Suu Kyi, Anna Politkovskaya, Rachel Carson, Simon Jenkins, Jeremy Paxman and Naom [sic] Chomsky.
-typescript titled "Post-Modernism Resurgent - ten buildings that made a difference' by Charles, with annotations
-typescript titled 'V&A Dinner on PM Sept 20, 2011' by Charles with annotations
-typescript titled 'The Return of Postmodernism' by Charles with annotations
-arrangements for an interview with The Sunday Times to promote The Story of Post-Modernism
-pages from the V&A Magazine Autumn Winter 2011
-printout from The Art Newspaper titled 'The rebirth of postmodern design'
-Fulcrum: The AA's Weekly Free Sheet issue 27, 9 Nov 2011 including an interview with Charles by Jack Self, and covering note
-reviews of Postmodernism at the V&A
-arrangements for Charles to appear on BBC's Night Waves
-arrangements for filming a promotional video for the V&A
-contract for a promotional film for Wiley
-arrangements for press interviews for The Story of Postmodernism
-plastic envelope including reviews, typescript titled 'The Legacy of Post Modernism' by Colin Fournier with Charles' annotations
-The Sunday Times Home 4 Sep 2011 with Charles on the cover and the headline 'Less is a bore'
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-32 · File · 1974-2013
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a plastic folder [removed for conservation reasons]. Includes:
-flyer for Postmodernism: stile e sovversione 1970-1990 held at Mart Rovereto 2012
-flyer for Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 held at Landesmuseum Zürich
-letter from Anne Leonard, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, returning the Melbourne Oration [not enclosed] and sending 'Non-Architecture' by Peter Corrigan [enclosed] and photocopy of an "ersatz fishie from a country area of NSW" [not enclosed], 1974
-cutting on Distant Reading
-reviews of the film 'The Pruitt Igoe Myth'
-review of a talk by Charles and Patrik Schumacher at the Royal College of Art, 2012
-typescript letters from Zdenek Hölzel, Czechoslovakia enclosing maps and plans of Prague, 1979
-program for Architectural students competition 2005 including a lecture by Charles
-printed out emails from Cynthia sending an edit of Charles' essay for Log magazine, with printouts of the illustrations of buildings labelled with harmonies and melodies, and an entry from Encyclopaedia Britannica on counterpoint
-donation to the V&A from the Portrack Charitable Trust
-Wiley Architecture & Design brochure
-typescript document titled 'Contextual Counterpoint in Architecture' by Charles printed out to show track changes, with additional annotations
-typescript document titled 'Post-Modern Stage II - Contextual Counterpoint' by Charles
-flyer for 'The Story of Post-Modernism'
-'Landscape architect has designs for the euthanasia debate' The Times 1 Dec 2012 interview with Charles ahead of a talk in Glasgow as part of Book Week Scotland
-ar+d award for Emerging Architecture news cutting [Charles listed as a judge]
-pages from AR Nov 2011
-plastic folder containing photocopied designs for the Jencks typeface
-official photographs of Charles from the Goldsmith presentation ceremonies 2011
-Offprint from Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Oct 1976
-invitation to a private tour and wine tasting at 19 Lansdowne Walk with Sothebys, 2012
-cover of Domus featuring Charles
-published article titled 'Postmodern Tories' by Roger Scruton, 2013
-interview with Charles in the Brooks Bulletin Spring 2013
-printed out emails from Steve Parnell checking quotes from an interview with Charles on AD and Andreas Papadakis, with annotations
-typescript titled '(P)relocating: the language of post-modern architecture' by Radu R Macovei and printed out email with Charles' comments
-pages from TLS 3 Oct 2013 annotated '4th wave fem.'
-pages from Blueprint No 2 Nov 1983 including 'High Jencks' by Deyan Sudjic
Why We Build
CJA-RES-AL-B2-2-4 · Item · 2012
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Picador. Signed inscription from Moore to Charles.

Inserted: annotated reviews of Moore's book; a brochure for the Lina Bo Bardi: Together exhibition at the British Council Gallery (2012); cuttings of reviews by Moore including Lina Bo Bardi and Postmodernism at the V&A.

 Moore, Rowan
Furniture Articles
Furniture Articles
CJA-TCH-c-2 · File · 1985-1990
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle relating to furniture designed by Charles, originally for the Thematic House and later commercially produced.

Includes:
-Medite News Spring '85 containing an article titled 'Furnishing The Future' on Charles' use of MDF with a b&W reproduction of the Sun Table and Chairs in Summer
-Building Design Interiors Supplement 1985 containing a one page feature on Charles' furniture designs recently on display at Aram Designs, London, with colour reproductions. (duplicates)
-photocopy of a document reating to the V&A RCS MA Course History of Design
-letter to Charles from the V&A Museum regarding a potential acquisition for the Department of Prints & Drawings and Photographs and a potential forthcoming exhibition. The letter has been annotated with dates and prices
-offprint from Country Life January 23 1986 of an article by Rosemary Hill titled 'A Designer's Guide to the Galaxy' about Charles' furniture designs with b&w reproductions
-correspondence from Sawaya & Moroni Contemporary Furniture regarding the production of the Symbolic Furniture and copy replies from Charles, plus photocopies of articles about the furniture in European press
-typescript annotated document titled 'Outline for an exhibition - SYMBOLIC FURNITURE' with prices of items suggested press
-page from The Times October 19-25 1985 with an article on children's furniture by Sarah Stallard highlighted.
-Cutting from The New York Times, August 12 1990 on Formica with a covering note from Robert D. van Roijen regarding a Sun chair in the accompanying picture
-correspondence from Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik law offices regarding a legal case between IPF International and Lambert Furniture, enclosing a photocopy of an article about the Sun Chair and a US Patent for a chair filed by IPF International
-colour postcard of a Sun chair on a grass lawn from the exhibition 'Symbolic Furniture' at Aram Designs, London
-catalogue for Miele vacuum cleaners featuring a version of the Sun Chair on the cover.
-pages from House & Garden magazine on the Designs for Interiors exhibition at the V&A museum featuring work by Charles, and a forthcoming lecture series on 20th century decoration.
-Invitation to a preview launch and price list from ALMA Furniture Co Ltd
-letter from Milo Baughman regarding slides
-photocopy of a page from Blueprint Dec-Jan 1985/6 reporting on the opening of Charles' exhibition at Aram.
Furniture Design
Furniture Design
CJA-TCH-c-4 · File · 1985 -1986
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'Furniture Design'.

Includes:
-post-it note with multiple manuscript notes
-MODO magazine October 1986 [Italian language] with a Slide Skyscraper on the cover, with a covering note from Sawaya & Moroni tucked inside. Also inside are a typescript furniture price list; a letter from Aram Designs enclosing measurements of the furniture and regarding orders; a list of addresses titled 'Patrons of New Art'; an article titled 'Good Solid Stuff' by Deyan Sudjic from an unknown magazine; an article titled 'Best Bets' from an unknown magazine showing modern furniture; cover of MODO Aug-Sep 1986 and an advertisement for the Sun chair, as well as pages torn out of the same issue relating to furniture.
-invitation to an exhibition 'Furniture in the Aluminium Vein' at Kaiser Art Gallery, California, 1986
-private view cards for 'Design in the '80s: Surface & Ornament' at the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, 1986, with a covering letter and invitation to an associated conference, sponsored by Formica
-brochures for furniture by Berghof Landes Rang
-business cards
-letter regarding a mechanism for raising and lowering a television
-correspondence with Seaboard International regarding supplying Medite from Sandell Perkins Ltd
-copy letter from Charles to Travis Dale & Partners regarding co-ordinating publicity
-correspondence between Charles and Aram Designs around costs and manufacturing
-letter from Marti Koplin at the Koplin Gallery regarding Terry Schoonhoven
-correspondence Max Protech regarding selling the Sun table and Chairs
-invoice from Wendy Baker for work on Maggie's desk, kitchen cabinet and ceiling, Room of Doubles and varnishing furniture
-printed document titled 'The Hermitage Chair'
-typescript and photocopied programs for furniture
-cutting from an unidentified magazine promoting the exhibition of Symbolic Furniture at Aram Designs
-pencil, pen, coloured pencil and photocopied designs for furniture
-statements from Nu-Line Paints Ltd and Sandell Perkins
-letter from Stephen Calloway regarding Charles' exhibition opening and the forthcoming exhibition at [the V&A]
-letter from the Formica Corporation about a visit to the Design Center, Cincinnati and draft reply from Charles, 1985.