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[loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B1-2-4 · Item · [2015]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Pages from Issue 70 of the AA files:
-'Possible Pompidous' by Susan Holden
-Renzo Pianpo & Richard Rogers in conversation with Enrique Walker
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-19 · File · 1966-2017
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Fax from Penguin UK to Charles confirming the number of copies sold of Modern Movements in Architecture and the process for the reversion of rights and re-publishing, 2000

-Plastic wallet containing: stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a course for 1974-1975 by Charles Jencks)’; typescript diagram with drawing titled ‘Semantic Analysis of Olivetti Training Centre Wing’; off-print of ‘A Semantic Analysis of Stirling’s Olivetti Centre Wing’ by Charles; cuttings from Forum Sep 1970 ‘Student Dorms on a Scottish Coast – Charles Jencks offers a semiological analysis’; stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a book by Charles Jencks)’, annotated; manuscript notes headed ‘Semiotics Architecture’; manuscript notes headed ‘Codes of Architecture’; printed list of forthcoming lecture series organised by Charles, taken from an unidentified publication, annotated [possibly AA]; cuttings from an unidentified publication titled ‘The Language of Architecture’ by Charles; typescript bibliography for a course titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’ by Charles; typescript titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’; ‘Language and Class’ by Paul Medlicott from New Society 5 Jun 1975; ‘The semantics of semiotics’ by Peter Wason and Ormond Uren’ from New Society 26 Dec 1975, annotated; 'The Culinary Triangle' by Claude Lévi-Strauss, New Society 22 Dec 1966, annotated with diagrams; TLS 5 Oct 1973, annotated on pieces by Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Tullio de Mauro, Tzvetan Todorov, Juri Lotman, Stepehn Ullman, Julia Kirsteva, Max Bense, post-it note attached with appointments and telephone numbers; 'Rhetorik und Architektur' by Charles, translated by Paul Kretz, publication not identified.

-fax from Grigor Films with an overview of a potential Channel 4 tv series titled '10 Buildings which changed the world', 2001
-manuscript notes headed 'Pioneers of Modern Movement 1936'
-photocopy from Meaning In Architecture, 1969
-printed-out email from Jos Bosman asking for feedback on his essay 'Reading Meaning in Architecture', annotated, nd
-invitation to the funeral service for Alan Colquhoun, 2012
-printed-out email from Charles to Sylvia Lavin, detailing his background in semiotics ahead of an interview, 2017
-cutting titled 'Hypertext', New Scientist 17 Jun 2006
-printed-out email from Joseph Bedford requesting a phone call relating to Rykwert and Dalibor, nd
-booklet for the Open University course 'Our Conversation with Things and Places', inscribed 1976; inserted: covering letter from Professor Christopher Cornford thanking Charles for dinner.
-photocopied review of Modern Movements in Architecture in The Architects' Journal 26 Mar 1986, Penguin Books clipping service
-correspondence from Penguin Books relating to translations, cover artwork, new editions of Modern Movements in Architecture 1984-1985; letter from Charles regarding errors and corrections
-correspondence from Doubleday regarding Modern Movements in Architecture, including new editions and reversion of rights 1984-1985
-typescript titled' White Paper: The Redevelopment of 390 Park Avenue for Fisher Brothers' with a covering letter from C. Ray Smith requesting a response from Charles in the next issue of Oculus, the monthly newsletter of the New York Chapter of the A.I.A, as Charles has been quoted as a witness in the White Paper; manuscript notes headed 'dictated on phone January 3, 1983' in response.

[Loose documents]
-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
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-2-27 · Item · 2010
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Wiley
Edited by Mark Garcia

Includes 'Architectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time' by Charles.

Includes correspondence [printed out emails] with Andrew Kovacs regarding diagrams and an email regarding the launch of Diagrams of Architecture at the AA.

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[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'
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-5-15 · Item · Dec 2003
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Red fabric hardback bound copy of the December 2003 issue of House & Garden. Includes 'Wavelengths: more than a decade in the making, Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland is attuned to the currents of the universe' by Belinda Rathbone, photographed by Macduff Everton.
Tucked inside are loose cuttings of an article titled 'The Garden of Cosmic Speculation' from Scottish Life, Autumn 2017; pages from Kew magazine Autumn 2014; events list for the Architectural Association Term 1 Week 1[2014]; and a letter from House & Garden thanking Charles for his participation.
House & Garden
aaq: vol 5 no 4
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-5-49 · Item · Winter 1973
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Includes 'The Candid King Midas of New York Camp by Charles [about Philip Johnson].

Inserted:
-letter from Christopher on BBC headed paper returning items to Charles and hoping that 'the Johnson project' will go ahead, 1980
-photocopies and cuttings of articles about Philip Johnson
-typescript titled 'Epigrams on Philip Corelyou Johnson (inspired by his writings) by Charles

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