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CJA-RES-AL-B20-4-7 · File · nd [c2001]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Loose documents, including:
-annotated typescript titled 'Challenging Beauty - idea for a Forum Symposium' by Charles, proposing an event at the Royal Academy with possible speakers
-manuscript notes
-letter to Charles
-manuscript notes on the reverse of a programme for 'Challenging Beauty II: Royal Academy Architecture Forum' 5 July 2001
-printed list of forthcoming architecture lectures at the Royal Academy
-faded fax of Charles' article 'On Beauty' from Porspect Publishing
-faded fax from Wendy Steiner at the University of Pennsylvania
-typescript titled 'Challenging Beauty' by Charles
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-11 · File · [2000-2017]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Items found loose on the shelf.
Includes:
-A review of the exhibition Paradise Now at Exit Art written by Peter Schjeldahl [2000]
-manuscript notes, partially faded, mentioning Lucian Freud, the Gender of Beauty, heroin chic and Post Human
-Harvard Club of New York summer schedule of services 2000 with room rates marked and annotations regarding meeting arrangements
-article by Will Alsop titled 'We Can All Design Our Future'
-letter from the Royal Academy of Arts regarding a Forum on 'The Return of the Subject - revisited' with a programme for the event [2000]
-book review by Adrian Barnett titled 'Useless Beauty' regarding evolution [2017]
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.
[Loose papers]
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
The Architectural Review 1377
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-34 · Item · Nov 2011
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes a review of Charles' The Story of Post-Modernism and a talk at the Royal Academy titled 'Radical Post-Modernism Today'; as well as a review of OMA's Glasgow Gartnavel Maggie's Centre. The Architectural Review
The Architectural Review 1377
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-30 · Item · Nov 2011
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes a review of Charles' The Story of Post-Modernism and a talk at the Royal Academy titled 'Radical Post-Modernism Today'; as well as a review of OMA's Glasgow Gartnavel Maggie's Centre. The Architectural Review