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A New Beauty?
-CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-16 · File · 1999-2002
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg labelled by Charles 'a new beauty?'

Includes:
-Press release and transparencies for the Jackson Pollock exhibition at the Tate Gallery 1999
-photocopies from 'They Have A Word for It' by Howard Rheingold chapter 4 'The Eye of the Beholder: conceptions of Beauty'
-press cutting on the 7 year itch with an image of Marilyn Monroe [2001]
-rejection letter from Thames & Hudson for an unnamed book proposal [1999]
-photocopy from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on brain synapses [1999]
-manuscript fax from Charles to Adrian Hamilton at the Independent enclosing 12 pages [not enclosed]
-fax from The Independent regarding Charles' article on Beauty [1999]
-manuscript notes headed 'New Paradigms'
-leaflet for an event held at the [Architectural Association] titled Paradigm Shifts featuring Charles
-article titled 'Keeping An Eye on Nature' by Professor David Cooper
-typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty'
-manuscript notes on Harvard Club of New York City headed paper
-itinerary in Bologna and Venice
-review by Paul Mattick of Wendy Steiner's 'Venus in Exile'.
-article by Charles titled 'Our modern age requires a new definition of beauty' from The Independent [1999]
--typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty' with manuscript notes in a different hand
-review by Hal Foster of 'Nobrow' by John Seabrook [2000]
-review by Kendall L Walton of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [2000]
-article by Miles Under titled 'Finding Art in Random Images Is as old as Art Itself' [2000]
-bundle of photocopies newspaper articles with annotations
-three sheets of slides, one with a covering note from the Royal Academy of Arts
-postcards of work by Franz X. Messerschmidt
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'brightly coloured beaks are the key to birds sex appeal'
-typescript by Charles titled 'EP Phone Home or What a Pleasure to Meet Mr Darwin' [18 pages]
-photocopies of the cover pages for 'Music, the Brain and ecstasy' by Robert Jourdan
-manuscript notes headed '8,500 words: Louisa's comments'.
-dust cover for Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble With Beauty'
-postcard of the hall at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
-reviews of Geoffrey Miller's 'The Mating Mind' [2000]
-article by Daniel McNeill titled 'The hidden face of beauty' [1999]
-manuscript draft guestlist for a proposed Portrack seminar on Beauty, to be held 2002/2003
-colour transparency marked for publication in The Jumping Universe
-article by Massimilano Finazzer Flory titled 'Beauty - not a context, but a need and an opportunity'
-review by Marina Warner or Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble with Beauty' [2002]
-article by Michael Prowse titled 'Let's clip the tails of the peacocks that strut around the boardroom'
-still from Barbarella
-postcard of Jake & Dinos Chapman's Hell
-review of Hugh Pearman of the British Museum's 'Defining Beauty' exhibition
-postcards of the Venus von Willendorf from the Naturhistorische Museum Wien and Arcimboldo works from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
-invitation to the launch of Wendy Steiners 'The Trouble with Beauty'
-article by Jackie Wullschlager titled 'Beauty in the labyrinth' [2000]
-page from the New Scientist with reviews of multiple books.

-CJA-RES-AL-B20-2-1 · Item · 1968
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Catalogue for a touring exhibition travelling to University of St Thomas, Houston; City Art Museum of St Louis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;The Art Institute of Chicago; M.H De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.

Inserted:
-cuttings on Ledoux from Building Design, 1973
-AA Events list 4 Summer term 1978
-cutting 'New Life for Ledoux's Masterpiece' Country Life 10 Jul 1980

University of St Thomas
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B2-3R-8 · File · nd [2013-2017]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose in the shelf. Includes:
-correspondence with Fred Scott about railings, including Charles' draft reply, relating to a conversation they had at the AA in the 1970s
-cutting from the RIBA Journal relating to the Tchoban Foundation's Museum of Architectural Drawing
-cuttings from the Times and the FT relating to The Shard
-pages from AR on Herman Hertzberger
-interview with Jonathan Meades from AT
[Loose document]
-CJA-RES-AL-B2-3L-27 · Item · [1980]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Document found loose on the shelf: private view invitation card to 'Six House' by Peter Cook and Christine Hawley at the AA.
Net 2: Networks Edinburgh
-CJA-RES-AL-B2-3L-22 · Item · Feb 1976
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Number Two of the review of Architecture and Art.

Inserted:
-Private view card for 'Arcadian City: an indiscreet architecture pf the bougeoisie by Peter Cook' at the AA
-A4 folded flyer/gallery handout for Arcadian City
-postcard for 'Pesce in London: a project for Tehran' at Art Net

Art Net
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B17-R2-22 · File · nd [1973-2007]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Kisho N. Kurokawa architect & associates brochure, with manuscript notes by Charles on the reverse of the pages.

Inserted:
-photographs of Kurokawa buildings
-printed project descriptions [Japanese language]
-bundle of typescript notes: 'Kurokawa - quotes'; biographical details; 'Kurokawa Wednesday October 23rd Interview in BIG BOX', 'Kurokawa Lecture at AA 1973; manuscript notes titled 'Kurokawa Interview 1974 Dec; 'Japan Traditional-Modern'
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Jim Ting, Metabolism'
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Zodiac 1966, Zodiac 9 p.96-111'
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Japan Architect'
-photocopied printed document titled 'Bibliography'
-annotated photocopied article 'Modern technology changes the built environment: Japanese cultural values and architechnology' by Michael Franklin Ross from The Japan Interpreter
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Japan Architect 1975'
-manuscript notes on plain paper titled 'Kurokawa notes on text'
-photocopied articles on Kurokawa
-annotated cutting 'Architechnics' by Michael Franklin Ross from Architecture Plus May/June 1974
-annotated news cutting 'Rising Son: Peter Murray on Kisho Kurokawa'
-'Systems of Metabolism: Noriaki Kurokawa, Architect: offprint from The Japan Architect, December 1967'
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to Kurokawa
-pages from Building Design November 2 1973 on Kurokawa

Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B17-R1-9 · File · 1995-1998
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-detailed faxes between Charles and Dr Kunio Kudo discussing a translation into Japanese which Kudo is making, with a business card for Kudo attached
-letters from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] to Charles, thanking him for the book 'Odd Man Out' and informing him of his exhibitions and copy replies from Charles discussing the translation with Kudo[1998]
-typescript titled 'Preface to the Japanese Edition: New World View'
-draft press release for 'A Landscape of Waves (or) Waves, Twists and Solitons: drawings, model and furniture: an exhibition' by Charles Jencks at the Redfern Gallery April-May [?1995]
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper headed 'semiotics of cosmic architecture'
-manuscript notes on yellow lined paper titled 'A Modern Introduction'
-faxed press release from Academy Group Limited for The Architecture of The Jumping Universe
-manuscript notes mentioning [Dagmar Richter], Kipnis, Goldberger, Tadasu Ohe and Kurokawa
-photocopy from an unidentified book of a Random Peano Curve
-fax correspondence between Charles and Professor K-C Lye (Eric) at the University of Hong Kong regarding a lecture and seminar he is to give, including a typescript document titled 'Complexity Architecture Seminar' with details of the seminar and a list of architectural projects for students to choose from
-Typescript titled 'A Very Modern Statement'
-manuscript notes
-fax to Charles from the Academy Group confirming a list of events in April-June 1995 including an exhibition at the Redfern Gallery and lectures at Oxford Brookes University, the ICA, Birkbeck College, Architectural Association and RIBA.
-fax from Oxford Brookes University confirming arrangements for the lecture
-typescript document titled 'Jumping Universe Launch May 1st 1995??????' with suggested press and events, heavily annotated
[Loose documents]
-CJA-RES-AL-B14-2-18 · File · 1973-2017
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-handout for the exhibition 'The Japanese House: photographs by Kishin Shinoyama at the AA
-'A reporter at large: from MacArthur to Miki-III' on Japan from The New Yorker Aug 18 1975, annotated
-book review titled 'Vulnerable Japan' by E.J. Hobsbawm from The New York Review, July 17 1975, annotated
-'The Japanese Godfather' by Antony Thomas from an unidentified publication
-book review titled 'Hitler and Hirohito' by Geoffrey Baraclough, The New York Review May 31 1973, annotated
-'Religion with no God' by Colin Cross from the Observer Magazine 1 Dec 1974, annotated
-'Mishima: the romantic fantasy and the appalling fact; by Francis Wyndham from an unidentified publication
-guidebook for Tsukiji Hongwanji
-'In the spirit of The Great Ando' by Robin Harding, interview with Tadao Ando, FT 5 Nov 2016
-'Sign of things to come' by Edwin Heathcote on Japanese houses, FT 6 Feb 2016, annotated
-'High culture on the mountain' interview with Tadao Ando by Caroline Roux, FT 28/29 Jun 2014
-'The house with holes in the roof that sprang leeks' by Jonathan Morrison, The Times 22 Mar 2017, review of The Japanese House at the Barbican
-review titled 'Obsessions in Tokyo; by Ian Buruma from The New York Review 10 Jan 2013, annotated
-'In Japan, home is where the art is' by Rowan Moore, review of The Japanese House at The Barbican, The Observer 26 Mar 2017
-aaq [Architectural Association Quarterly] Vol 7 No 3
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

Architectural Association Quarterly