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A+U Architect vs. Critic
CJA-AVC-1 · File · 1982-1985
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'A+U Architect vs. Critic'. Folder contains 1 box of slides [catalogued separately as CJA-AVC-1-a] and also includes:
-colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
-folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
-manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
-photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
-cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
-leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
-photocopy of the Jencksiana font
-b&w photograph of the Elemental House
-sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
-typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
-manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
-typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
-manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
-pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
-copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending a symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
-copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
-printed proofs of line drawings
-pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
-poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]
RIBA Charles Jencks Award 2013
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-25 · Item · 2013
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Printed document with annotations of nominees for the 2013 Charles Jencks Award; loose typescript meeting notes and press releases with annotations RIBA Charles Jencks Award
T-Zone: Transfiguration in Architecture
CJA-RES-AL-B14-3-7 · Item · 1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Collections Gallery 264 Brompton Road and the Architectural Association, Bedford Square, as part of the Japan Festival 1991, 25 Sep-20 Oct 1991.

Inserted: exhibition handout, annotated; review of the exhibition by Claire Melhuish from Building Design, 4 Oct 1991; review of the exhibition from The Guardian 30 Sep 199by Deyan Sudjic; photocopied list of telephone numbers and addresses of architects in Japan; letter from the President of RIBA to the President of the Japan Institute of Architects regarding the establishment of a series of lectures using Charles' Nara Gold Medal Award money.

 Architectural Association
[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 papers]
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R1-5 · File · 1990-2018
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Business cards for Kako Kurokawa and Yasumasa Ishizaka
-Cover of and pages from the RIBA Journal April 1998 referencing Kurokawa
-New Year's Card from Kiso Kurokawa architect & associates, Jan 1999
-two sealed, un-addressed invitations to the Kiso Kurokawa retrospective at RIBA, 1998
-Profile of Kiso Kurokawa architect and associates in World Architecture 55, April 1997
-Interview with Kiso Kurokawa in Building Design, 24 Apr 1998
-Review of Kiso Kurokawa's exhibition at Manchester's Cube gallery from Building Design, 19 Oct 2001
-Printed out article on the Nakagin Capsule Tower from The New York Times, 29 Sep 2016
-cuttings on skyscrapers, 2017-2018
-photocopied review of Kurokawa's Sporting Club building in Illinois, Chicago tribune, 7 Oct 1990
-review of the film 'Rikyu' from The new York Times, 18 Jan 1991
-invitation to the opening to Noritaka Minami exhibition at UCLA, 2012
-feature on Kurokawa from Building Design, 18 Jun 2010
-letters page from RIBA Journal relating to Kurokawa, May 1998
-Plantec branded folder containing a letter from Tadasu Ohe [signed] following up from the conversation at the 1998 Nara World Architecture Exposition, enclosing his CV and colour photocopies of published articles on his work (including from The Japan Architect and Kurokawa's 'New Wave Japanese Architecture'.
Kurokawa 1976-2007 (+ images)
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