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Contents of a folder labelled 'Themes'.

Includes:
-colour polaroid of the Cosmic Oval
-correspondence between Charles and Barbara Hoyle regarding Sir Fred Hoyle's contributions to the house
-program for the Entrance Ellipse
-correspondence between Charles and D McNally at the University of London Observatory, regarding an introduction to Fred Hoyle and new research in astronomy
-manuscript and photocopied lettering designs
-cuttings from Country Life 14 July 1983 regarding Villa Kerylos, French Riviera
-typescript with manuscript alterations title 'The Thematic House'
-astrological designs on tracing paper
-photocopied typeface designs and details of a course on letter design for architects
-colour, b&w photographs and floor plans of the [National Gallery of Art, Washington]
-I.M. Pei & Partners program and statistics and press release for the National Gallery of Art [Washington] Expansion
-manuscript notes on the National Gallery of Art, the Willow Tea Rooms, temples, Edzell castle
-design for the sink in the Cosmic Loo
-notes on the word 'cosmos' and for a frieze
-contact sheet and negatives of built-in furniture within the house
-manuscript notes listing rooms in the house and columns labelled 'drawings, sketches notes etc: what we have', 'Photographs: what we have' and 'What we need' dated 14 Dec 1984. There are coloured dots to indicate Maggie and Charles' preferences.
-cutting from the Guardian 'The House that Jencks built' 1984 and photocopies
-typescript notes titles 'Cultural History July 25th 1984 MK CK WS' relating to the frieze
-news cuttings on astronomy
-typescript notes titled 'Cultural Time' with manuscript annotations listing historical figures
-typescript notes titled 'Seventeen Themes of the Thematic House The Matic How See' divided into general, historical & architectural and personal
-printed typescript document titled 'Program for the Entrance Ellipse - The Cosmic Egg and Cultural History by Charles Jencks' with manuscript annotations and sketches on reverse.
-manuscript and typescript draft lists of themes
-typescript document titled 'William Stok December 2 1984: Thoughts on the Mural' with a manuscript sketch at the bottom of the page
-typescript documentitled 'Allegory MK: Architecture defeated; architecture triumphant'.
-manuscript quotations
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the personification of architecture
-pencil sketches on tracing paper of doors, with photocopies
-incomplete typescript document titled 'The Thematic House: Charles Jencks'
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the symbolism of the seasons
-typescript and manuscript notes titled 'Future Pavilion' with aphorisms about the future
-photocopy typescript article titled 'The Thematic House (A brief Summary); Charles Jencks'.
-typescript letter from Mark Girouard sending captions [not included] and returning the slides and transparencies
-typescript notes on Autumn, Aphrodite, Artemis and Spring
-horoscopes from Vogue June 1972
-typescript notes titled 'Thoughts on Reading E.H. Gombrich 'The Museum: Past, Present and Future' in Ideals and Idols, Phaidon, Oxford 1979'
-pencil and ink sketch frieze designs
-colour polaroid photograph of the Bathpool
-receipt from Harriet Wynter Ltd for an Orrery and colour reproduction labelled 'This is the ceiling of the famous planetarium built by Eise Eisinga'
-letter from D McNally at the University of London regarding the entrance ellipse and returning Charles' program (attached) and regarding introductions to Sir Fred Hoyle
-pencil lettering designs
-typescript notes titled 'Museum of Cultural History'
-private view card for 'Ornament and Decoration: Architectural Drawings by Arthur Brown Jr and Bakewell & Brown' at Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, with manuscript annotations
-colour polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval

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

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