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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 papers]
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
House & Garden December 2003 Charles Jencks
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
[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'
AD Reader: The Diagrams of Architecture
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.

 AD
[Loose papers]
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