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-CJA-RES-AL-B17-L5-20 · Item · 1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: ブロンズ新社

Book of the 1991 New World View symposium. Charles was a panellist at both the Tokyo and Kyoto events. Includes direct reports of the discussions.

Other participants were:
Lyall Watson
Tamotsu Aoki 青木保
Kisho Kurakawa 黒川紀章
Keishi Saeki 佐伯啓思
Yoichiro Murakami 村上陽一郎
Masao Yamaguchi 山口昌男
Kazue Kobata 木幡和枝

Inserted:
-1992 New year's card from Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates
-covering letter from Kisho Kurokawa to Charles, 26 Dec 1991, signed
-obi strip [torn]

NHK
Anyhow
-CJA-RES-AL-B4-5-30 · Item · 1998
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: MIT Press

Includes discussion at the Anyhow conference with session moderated by Charles

ANY
-CJA-RES-AL-B4-5-60 · Item · Fall 2014
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Anyone Corporation

Includes 'The Missing Part of the Polemic: Superordinate Rules, or are rules impossible? Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas discussed elements over breakfast on the gritti Palace terrace, overlooking the Grand Canal on June 7 2014. An excerpt'.

Inserted:
-postcard 'v.l.t.'2014 by Michael Najar [two copies]
-typescript form letter to subscribers with manuscript note to Charles from Cynthia Davidson, 2014

Log
[Thematic House]
-CJA-TCH-b-29 · File · nd [1984-2000]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Comprises slides of the exterior of the house, details of floors and windows, views of the Time Garden, rooms and furniture in use, including Charles in the Architectural Library.
Digital contact sheets
-CJA-TCH-b-30 · File · [2011]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
A4 paper with inkjet printed thumbnails of image. One group are labelled chjen001.jpg-chjen013.jpg, and the other are labelled chje_2001.jpg-chje2026.jpg. They include photographs of the interior of the Thematic House including Charles in the Architectural Library and in Indian Summer. Includes a brief covering note from Andreas von Einsiedel, dated 2011. von Einsiedel, Andreas
-CJA-TCH-b-33 · File · 1984-1985
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Articles & Publicity'.

Includes:
-b&w photographs of Charles sitting at the Sun table and chairs in Summer, stamped on reverse ' Copyright: The Guardian'
-news cutting and photocopies of an article by Martin Pawley in Arts Guardian on the house, with a covering letter to Johnny Grey
-proposal to Channel 4 for a television programme by Georgina Denison
-typescript letter from Mark Girouard enclosing a draft article on Jencks' houses in Santa Monica and London and a copy reply from Charles
-list of slides and image captions
-correspondence with magazines regarding potential articles including World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, Harpers & Queen, House & Garden and Archi-Créé.

Extras
-CJA-TCH-b-36 · File · nd [1984-1985]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of an envelope labelled 'Extras' containing slides, photographs, correspondence and transparencies.

Includes:
-compliments slip from Richard Bryant
-b&w photographs by Robin Laurence for NYT of Charles' Biedermeier chairs alongside some of the Symbolic Furniture, and Charles sitting on one of the Sun chairs, stamped on reverse,1985
-photograph from the collection of the National Monuments Record of a unidentified historic building
-colour polaroids of the Foursquare Room
-b&w photographs of Esna, Temple of Khnum, one with extensive annotations, and the pyramid of King Chephren
-colour transparencies by Richard Bryant
-b&w photographs of the Elemental House
-b&w photographs of the Architectural Library, John's Room and Lily's Room with the furniture installed but no other furnishings
-colour photograph of the West elevation
-b&w negative of Winter
-letter from Mark Lewis of Lewis & Horning regarding the work he did on Indian Summer, 1985
-cutting from an unidentified magazine
-manuscript notes labelled 'Richard Bryant' with a list of rooms in a variety of different handwritings, including notes about Medite
-b&w polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval
-transparencies inside tracing paper, annotated for publication
-colour slides of rooms in the Thematic House labelled 'C Jencks: not used before. 20 slides - 4 Square RM + Bathpool' but including most of the ground floor, the Time Garden and the chimneys
-letter from William Stok regarding photography of this mural and enclosing a postcard of a work by Chagall [not included], 1985
-colour transparency of the Garagia Rotunda annotated 'Chapter 2'
-envelope enclosing b&w photographs with a message from 'Eamon of the shop'
-b&w photograph of Charles in front of the Spring fireplace [over-sized, damaged]
-b&w photograph of Charles and Maggie in front of the Spring fireplace. Charles is holding a mobile phone [over-sized, damaged]