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CJA-VBE-3 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled '1980 Biennale/Biennale 1980 Russia etc. 93 slides 4BxW + documents'. Includes:
-colour film strip showing men in a factory/workshop
-plastic strips containing 12 slides, one labelled 'Biennale 1982'
-negative strips [showing 1980 Biennale], bag annotated with instructions for printing
-photocopied typescript titled ‘Translation: The Tournament’ relating to the XIV Congress of UIA, Warsaw. S. Okojomox, Warsaw-Moscow’.
-manuscript letter from Glazytchev Slava in Moscow regarding translations of Charles’ work, their publication in domus, work with Eugene [Rosenblum] and Mark [Konik] under the auspicises of Artists’ Union and work of others throughout the Soviet Republic with sketch drawings of the buildings.
-publication: Архитектура ИЗДАЕТСЯ СОВМЕСТНО С СОЮЗОМ АРХИТЕКТОРОВ СССР И ГОСГРАЖДАНСТРОЕМ № 16 (500) 2 августа 1981 [Russian language]
-copied typescript document headed ‘Digging up the past: treatment for a 45 minute film’ to document post-modern architect and be presented and co-authored by Charles, by Scott Thomas, 1981; annotated.
-manuscript letter from Suzanne [Frank] at The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; annotated.
-postcard of New York from [illegible] [Stephens], annotated by Charles ‘re Vidler piece’
Centre D’Etudes et de Recherches Architecturales, Paris - Bulletin d’information inter-establissements no 51 Mai 1980 with a paragraph annotated ‘translate’
-guidelines for submissions to the Arts Films Committee
-manuscript letter from Scott [Thomas] regarding the film, including a list of people on the Arts Films Advisory Committee
-typescript letter from Scott Thomas regarding a proposed film on Post-Modernism for a general audience and a copy letter from Carter H Manny at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
-photocopies from an unknown publication, on classicism; annotated
-typescript copy letter from Charles titled ‘Letters to the Editor Re: Classical confusion’ regarding an article by Tony Vidler [1981]
-postcard of a drawing of a building by Hans Robert Hiegel, used as a Christmas Card
-christmas letter from Thomas and [Marina] Smith
-cutting on Ricardo Bofill's Le Palaccio d'Abraxas
-manuscript notes titled ‘The Reurbanisation of Runcorn’ [not Charles’ hand]
-anuscript article ‘The transformation of Chandigarh – Rodrigo Pérez de Arce'
-manuscript letter from Kazuhiro Ishii on Kazuro Ishii Architect & Associates headed paper regarding windows in Charles’ "Post-Modernism book".
-typescript letter from Laurence Booth on Booth/Hansen & Associated headed paper regarding Post Modern Classicism, 1980
-typescript letter from Paolo Portoghesi thanking Charles for the material concerning the “Mosque of London’ and inviting him to be on the experts committee for the Venice Biennale, 1979
-manuscript list of architects’ names on Los Angeles: School of Architecture and Urban Planning headed paper
-receipt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art photograph services, 1981
-typescript letter from Eugene Kupper enclosing material for the Venice Biennale, 1980
-typescript letter from Helle Klint asking to feature on of Charles’ houses in a monthly column for Berlingske Tidende, enclosing an example, 1979
-typescript document titled ‘Contemporary Architects: Publication Spring 1979 (London: Macmillan, NYC: St Martin’s) with details of the editor, advisory board and contributors with a covering notes from Muriel Emanuel asking Charles to contribute, 1978
-manuscript lists of architect’s names, titled ‘C.Jencks’ sub-headed Japan, USA, Europe/England
-change of address from Kuro and Chris Fawcett, on the reverse a manuscript list of Japanese architects
-manuscript lists of architects sub headed ‘Japanese metaphysical school + symbolism’, ‘USA historicism, symbolism, [remainder], ‘European historicism, urbanism, vernacular’
-business card for Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri
-photograph of an unidentified man in front of the Holy Trinity [Kingsway] church
-cutting from Building Design 9 July 1982 on the Art and Architecture Action Group at the ICA
-typescript note titled ‘(for Stirling Bayer)’ regarding Lutyens' Midland Bank headquarters.
-leaflet for laboratorio de arquitectura 1982 centro de arte y comunicaión, Viamonte
-L. A Architecture: A publication of the Los Angeles Chapter, American Institute of Architects Vol 7 No 3 Mar 1981 including a mention of Charles lecturing on Post-Modern Classicism at the Pacific Design Center
-Architectural Association School of Architecture Events list 10, Autumn Term 8-10 Dec 1980 including an exhibition on Garagia Rotunda and a lecture on Post-Modern Classicism by Charles
-typescript letter from Romi Khosla on The Grüp New Delhi headed paper, asking if their work was featured in Charles’ book, 1981
-photocopied review of Signs, Symbols and Architecture by Linda groat, sent by Geoffrey Broadbent
-cutting from the International Herald Tribune 21 May 1982 on demographics
-manuscript letter from Humphrey B[illegible] regarding a meeting with Robert on Brown’s Hotel notepaper regarding a meeting with Robert
-cutting from an unidentified publication 'Neo-classical (again)' by Loyd Grossman
-cutting from an unidentified publication [possibly the Maltings Free Press] on Jeremy Dixon with annotations
-photocopy from Casabella No. 470 6/1981 titled 'Post-post....'
-typescript document titled ‘Palladio and the Japanese’
-manuscript letter from Edward Jones 'acting as a messenger for Christian Broza' with some drawings and talking about what movements Charles has left out of his “family tree”
-b&w professional photographs of the Venice Biennale
-cutting of ‘The Presence of the Past’ by Charles in domus 61 [in Italian] with compliments slip
Giancarlo De Carlo
CJA-RES-AL-B2-3R-3 · Item · 1992
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd

Inserted:
-manuscript notes on Giancarlo de Carlo
-cutting from Building Design on Giancarlo de Carlo

Zucchi, Benedict
[Loose document]
CJA-RES-AL-B2-3L-16 · Item · 1994
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Document found loose on the shelf: cutting from Building Design of a conversation with Cedric Price ahead of his Design for Doubt, Delight & Demolition lecture at the AA.
[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
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
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R1-6 · File · 1994-2007
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a red box file labelled 'KUROKAWA CJ notes + images etc KUROKAWA'
Includes:
-Letter on Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates headed paper inviting Charles to become a founding member of 'Green and Recycle' association, with a list of current members, 2007
-Letter from Kisho Kurokawa concerning the Japanese translation of 'The Architecture of the Jumping Universe', annotated draft reply from Charles confirming receipt of the translation
-typescript titled 'Kurokawa's Double Vision: from metabolism to fractals' by Charles
-copy fax from Charles to Kurokawa requesting specific images relating to fractals and information on other Japanese architects; and reply, 1994
-fax from Kurokawa's secretary sending material on fractal series ; annotated draft reply by Charles requesting Kurokawa's guest lis for a dinner party 'here
-copy fax from Charles to Kurokawa hoping to make arrangements to meet in Nara
-copy fax from Charles to Dr Kunio Kodo regarding the Japanese translation of The Architecture of the Jumping Universe
-draft manuscript dinner guest list, attached to a fax from Dennis Sharp to Charles regarding the Kurokawa exhibition catalogue, with a post-it note making arrangements for a tennis match, 1997
-correspondence relating to arrangements for the opening events for the Kurokawa exhibition including a party at Charles' house
-covering letters from Kurokawa's office confirming material has been sent to Charles
-faxed from Kurokawa giving details of fractals and symbiosis within his work, and copy fax from Charles describing the content of 'The Architecture of The Jumping Universe', 1994
-World Architecture Triennale, Nara, 1998, The Minutes of the Symposium and Lecture Series with a covering note from the Association for the World Architecture Exposition, Nara; includes the text of Charles' presentation in a section titled 'The City of Wood - Nara'
-Fax from Dennis Sharp to RIBA Journal protesting their 'attack' on the Kurokawa exhibition, 1998
-Plastic folder including: fax from Kurokawa to Charles mentioning his Paris exhibition, with annotated reply from Charles; fax confirming the postponement of the World Architecture Exposition, Nara but confirming the World Architecture Triennale and the text of Kurokawa's lecture 'From the Age of Machine to the Age of Life: From Metabolism to Symbiosis'.
-typescript titled 'Two Seminal Architects' by Charles, with printed out e-mail from Charles to the AJ submitting copy and manuscript notes on Kurokawa and Ungers.
-untitled typescript on Kurokawa, with printed out e-mail from Building Design confirming publication schedule; printed out photographs of Charles with Kurokawa,[Kengo] Kuma, and other unidentified men at a restaurant in Tokyo in 2007, 2007
-manuscript sketch map showing buildings labelled with their architects in Omotesando, Tokyo
-business card for employees at the Mori Art Museum, Casa Brutus, Taisei Corporation, Collex Living and for Takeo Nishioka
-catalogue for the 'Kisho Kurokawa: From the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life' exhibition at the National Art Centre, Tokyo, produced as a 2007 calendar
-carrier bag from アオヤマ・フォト・アート containing transparencies and project information sheets for: Bukit Unggul Show Bungalow; KL International Airport Terminal Complex; Fujinomiya Golf Club Clubhouse; Flores Residence, Menorca; Fractal Series Furniture, with DHL covering note from Kurokawa
-plastic folder containing transparencies and project information sheet for Fukui City Museum of Art
-plastic wallet containing colour publicity photographs of buildings
[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'.
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-19 · Item · 1986-1995
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Brochure for the Nara/TOTO World Architecture Triennale open division 1995
-Time magazine 21 Sep 1987 folded to an article about Japanese architecture
-Telescope テレスコープ Summer 1987 issue
-cuttings from Building Design 31 Oct 1986 on Tadao Ando, annotated
-printed out e-mails between Charles and Norihito Nakatani about Japanese houses in the 1970s, with Charles' draft manuscript reply
-folder labelled 'Japan 2001' containing printed-out emails relating to the organisation of the Masaharu Taksaki lecture at RIBA; lists of architecture events taking place as part of the Japan 2001 season; letters from Charles making arrangements for the 2001 lecture
-typescript titled 'Designing for a High Tech Nation: The Symbolic Modern in the 1980s Japan' by Yasushi Zenno, submitted as part of a module at UCLA, annotated
-leaflets for the World Architecture Exposition, Nara 1996.3 No. 3
-leaflet for the Nara Convention Hall International Design Competition
-The Architects' Journal 21 March 1996
-leaflet for 'Urban islands: architectural works of Mario Bellini 1985/1995' at RIBA Architecture Centre, 1996
-envelope for Kazuhiro Ishii Architect and Associates with a diagram of architects' names drawn on it in biro, containing reprints from 住宅特集 and 建築文化 as well as colour photographs of the inside and outside of a building
-copy letters from Charles to Kisho Kurokawa and Minoru Takeyama introducing a friend who is visiting Japan, and a list of the contact details for Japanese architects
-article from Building Design 5 May 1995 on Tadao Ando
-business cards for Kazuyo Sejima, Kengo Kuma and Hajime Yatsuka
-fax from Eisaku Ushida and Kathryn Findlay thanking Charles for including Truss Wall House in The Architecture of The Jumping Universe, and Charles' manuscript draft reply
-correspondence with Toyo Ito making arrangements to meet in Tokyo, 1995
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-17 · Item · 1976-1984
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-English language guide for the Roppongi Prince Hotel opening September 1984, designed by Kisho Kurokawa
-letters page from Building Design 25 May 1984
-建築家 4 1976: The Japan Architect
-typescript titled 'The Architecture of Symbiosis' and annotated "toword [sic] inter-culturalism" and 'Kisho Kurokawa" with manuscript notes on reverse
-typescript titled 'Tidal currents from Post-Modernism'
-manuscript notes on Inter Design '84 Sapporo headed paper
-manuscript notes titled 'Modern Culture,Post-Modern Culture + What will come next?' on pink plain paper
-letter from The Japan Foundation offering a Short-Term Visitors' Grant, September 1984
-information on the Japan Inter Design Conference including a list of members
-tentative schedule for Charles attending Inter Design '84 Sapporo
-postcard from Kazuhiro Ishii Architect & Associates sent to Charles at 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript titled 'Le Poétique in Architecture: beyond smeiotics' by Kisho Kurokawa
-typescript titled 'Karakuri: the metastructural machine' by Kisho Kurokawa with manuscript notes on reverse