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Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
-Fax from Penguin UK to Charles confirming the number of copies sold of Modern Movements in Architecture and the process for the reversion of rights and re-publishing, 2000

-Plastic wallet containing: stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a course for 1974-1975 by Charles Jencks)’; typescript diagram with drawing titled ‘Semantic Analysis of Olivetti Training Centre Wing’; off-print of ‘A Semantic Analysis of Stirling’s Olivetti Centre Wing’ by Charles; cuttings from Forum Sep 1970 ‘Student Dorms on a Scottish Coast – Charles Jencks offers a semiological analysis’; stapled typescript titled ‘The Semiotics of Architecture (outline of a book by Charles Jencks)’, annotated; manuscript notes headed ‘Semiotics Architecture’; manuscript notes headed ‘Codes of Architecture’; printed list of forthcoming lecture series organised by Charles, taken from an unidentified publication, annotated [possibly AA]; cuttings from an unidentified publication titled ‘The Language of Architecture’ by Charles; typescript bibliography for a course titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’ by Charles; typescript titled ‘The Language of Modern Architecture’; ‘Language and Class’ by Paul Medlicott from New Society 5 Jun 1975; ‘The semantics of semiotics’ by Peter Wason and Ormond Uren’ from New Society 26 Dec 1975, annotated; 'The Culinary Triangle' by Claude Lévi-Strauss, New Society 22 Dec 1966, annotated with diagrams; TLS 5 Oct 1973, annotated on pieces by Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Tullio de Mauro, Tzvetan Todorov, Juri Lotman, Stepehn Ullman, Julia Kirsteva, Max Bense, post-it note attached with appointments and telephone numbers; 'Rhetorik und Architektur' by Charles, translated by Paul Kretz, publication not identified.

-fax from Grigor Films with an overview of a potential Channel 4 tv series titled '10 Buildings which changed the world', 2001
-manuscript notes headed 'Pioneers of Modern Movement 1936'
-photocopy from Meaning In Architecture, 1969
-printed-out email from Jos Bosman asking for feedback on his essay 'Reading Meaning in Architecture', annotated, nd
-invitation to the funeral service for Alan Colquhoun, 2012
-printed-out email from Charles to Sylvia Lavin, detailing his background in semiotics ahead of an interview, 2017
-cutting titled 'Hypertext', New Scientist 17 Jun 2006
-printed-out email from Joseph Bedford requesting a phone call relating to Rykwert and Dalibor, nd
-booklet for the Open University course 'Our Conversation with Things and Places', inscribed 1976; inserted: covering letter from Professor Christopher Cornford thanking Charles for dinner.
-photocopied review of Modern Movements in Architecture in The Architects' Journal 26 Mar 1986, Penguin Books clipping service
-correspondence from Penguin Books relating to translations, cover artwork, new editions of Modern Movements in Architecture 1984-1985; letter from Charles regarding errors and corrections
-correspondence from Doubleday regarding Modern Movements in Architecture, including new editions and reversion of rights 1984-1985
-typescript titled' White Paper: The Redevelopment of 390 Park Avenue for Fisher Brothers' with a covering letter from C. Ray Smith requesting a response from Charles in the next issue of Oculus, the monthly newsletter of the New York Chapter of the A.I.A, as Charles has been quoted as a witness in the White Paper; manuscript notes headed 'dictated on phone January 3, 1983' in response.

Black folder with plastic pockets, labelled on the front on blue tape 'ADHOCISM THE CASE FOR IMPROVISATION'. Labelled inside the front cover 'C A JENCKS' on blue tape.

Inside the front pouch:
-manuscript document titled 'The Weird World of Adhocism'
-cards for exhibitions of miniature portraits and pet portraits by Rita Greer [1975]

The folder itself has a mix of items inside the plastic pockets and loose between the pockets. Includes:
-photographic reproductions of historic images
-cuttings from New Scientist
-photograph of Vesnin's Pravda Building annotated 'to illustrate GSSU Modern Movements Series'
-print-out reviews of the re-issued version of Adhocism
-letter from the MIT press enclosing author copies of the re-issue
-cuttings from newspapers
-b&w photographs and cuttings stuck to paper and labelled with typescript and manuscript annotations
-typescript document with manuscript additions titled 'Adhocism: The Transformed Object'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Creation Out of Subsystems'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Evolutionary Series'
-postcard to Charles from Stephen Bayley [2013]
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Art & Equipment'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Archeological City'
-letter from Bob Perry enclosing photographs with examples of humour in architecture in New Zealand
-Bulletin of the Institut de l'Environnement
-flyer for the Second Conference on Twentieth Century Design History, to be held at Middlesex Polytechnic April 1976, with a paper by Tony Wilkins titled The Development of Do-It-Yourself circled
-photostat of an article on architecture education at Goddard College
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: The Ad Hoc Revolution'
-'exquisite corpse' style drawing

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.