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[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-21 · Item · [2016]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Loose bundle of papers in a plastic wallet [removed for conservation reasons] with a post-it note labelled 'Niall McLaughlin'. Includes news cuttings relating to Niall McLaughlin Architects, as well as manuscript notes and typescript documents for the Jencks Award.
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CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-22 · Item
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of cuttings and typescript documents mostly relating to the Jencks Award.

Includes an invitation to 'The Return of The Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture' at the Sir John Soane's Museum and a review by Edwin Heathcote of the exhibition annotated by Charles; as well as printed-out email correspondence with Martin Hartung arranging an interview for his doctoral research.

Jencks Award
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-27 · Item · 2000-2013
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'Jencks Award RIBA Miranda [phone number]'.
Includes:
-typescript nominations
-printed out email correspondence
-typescript 'Messages for Charles' 29 Sep 2005 including the installation of Charles' sculpture at Clare College and personal arrangements
-printed out emails and typescript documents regarding the amount in the Jencks Fund
-correspondence regarding a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'The Icon is Here to Stay'
-typescript documents regarding the changed criteria for the Jencks Award
-typescript and manuscript lists of Japanese architects with contact details
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
Japanese Architecture
CJA-RES-AL-B14-4-11 · Item · 1984-2001
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a box folder labelled 'Japanese Architec-ture'.
Includes:
-Charles' name badge for Inter Design '84 Sapporo, attached to a folded piece of paper with manuscript notes
-letter from Etsuko Minamino, thanking Charles for dinner and enclosing photographs of Charles taking part in a panel and with unidentified people [1992]
-ticket for 厳島神社 [Itsukushima shrine] with a note written on reverse
-leaflet for Hilltop Hotel Tokyo
-letter from the Chief Executive of Japan 2001 enclosing a list of possible events [1999]
-letter from Shin Takamatsu to Andreas Papadakis confirming he is preparing transparencies
-envelope containing unlabelled transparencies
-letter from Shin Takamatsu Architect & Associates regarding a publication being produced by a Swiss publisher
-review by Richard J Samuels of Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons, annotated, from an unidentified publication
-folder with a business card for Tom Heneghan attached
-article from The Time 17 Apr 2001 by Rosemary Righter on Japan
-printed out e-mail from Makoto Sei Watanabe regarding their dinner and his recent works
-letter from Kengo Kuma [signed] sending a special edition of l'ARCAEDIZIONI, 2000
-A4 flyer/handout for an exhibition 'The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki at the V&A, 2001
-covering letters from Weatherhill books sending various publications for review, with manuscript notes
-letter from the World Architecture Exposition, 1998, Nara, regarding expenses, 1994
-letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] discussing a proposal for a television programme, 1987
-World Architecture Exposition, 1998, Nara publication Triennara 1994.3 No. 2 [Japanese/English]
-plastic folder labelled 'British/Japanese scholarship' containing letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] regarding plans for Nara and various publications, 1991, with reply annotated; letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] thanking Charles for 'The Post-Modern Reader' and making plans to be in London; typescript list of names and addresses for architects in japan, with annotations and business cards attached; leaflet for Fairmont Hotel Tokyo
-invitation to participate in the World Architecture Triennale, Nara, 1995 and various booklets for the Trriennale
-letter from Kisho Kurokawa [signed] as producer of the World Architecture Exhibition 1998 Nara inviting Charles to be a board member, 1989
-invitation card for the Royal Academy of Arts Japanese Culture Evening 1999 including a lecture by Professor Shuji Takashina, with manuscript notes loose inside
-manuscript note son plain paper headed 'Japan 2001' and 'Channel 4'
-typescript list of major proposals for Japan 2001 events with annotations
-typescript titled 'summary of the slides shown by Professor Suzuki', annotated
-catalogue for 'Bridges' the Daiwa Foundation Anglo-Japanese Visual Arts Touring Show, inserted: faxes and correspondence relating to Japan 2001; the Ango-Japanese Annual Lecture with RIBA; and the 2000 Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture
-postcard advertising an exhibition of Shin Takamatsu at the GA Gallery, Tokyo 11 Nov-17 Dec 1989
-folder labelled 'Master Plan: Silkroad Town 21: World Architecture Exposition 1998 Nara' containing: heavily annotated typescript titled 'Historical/Anti-Historical City: Gold Medal Address 1992' by Charles, with manuscript notes on the reverse; photocopy of 'The Public, The Price and the Sacred' by Charles Correa from Daedelus Fall 1989; printed publication for the 1998 World Architecture Exposition; leaflets for the Nara Daibutsu and Hōryūji Temple; business cards; currency exchange and hotel receipts; photocopies descriptions of architecture projects in Japan; manuscript notes on a variety of different papers relating to Japanese architects; correspondence regarding corrections of spelling mistakes in minutes and Charles' lecture at Naras; leaflet for 'The Desiring eye: reviewing the Slow House Diller + Scofidio ディラー+スコフィディオのスローハウス' at Gallery Ma; leaflets for the Nara City Museum of Photography; トリエンナール奈良’92 brochure; letter notifying Charles he is to receive the Gold Medal with draft manuscript reply; fax from Kisho Kurokawa informing Charles that he is to receive the Gold Medal; fax detailing arrangements for the Contemporary Architectural Symposium, 1998; official correspondence from the World Architecture Exposition 1998 Nara with arrangements for Charles' stay; letter from Charles to Kisho Kurokawa regarding plans for an architectural museum at UCLA; partially used line notepad.
[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
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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