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[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
[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