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A+U Architect vs. Critic
CJA-AVC-1 · File · 1982-1985
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'A+U Architect vs. Critic'. Folder contains 1 box of slides [catalogued separately as CJA-AVC-1-a] and also includes:
-colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
-folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
-manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
-photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
-cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
-leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
-photocopy of the Jencksiana font
-b&w photograph of the Elemental House
-sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
-colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
-typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
-manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
-typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
-manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
-typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
-pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
-copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending a symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
-copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
-printed proofs of line drawings
-pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
-poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]
CJ Thesis Phd 1966-1970
CJA-PHD-1 · File · 1966-1970
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'CJ Thesis Phd 1966-1970 UCL' in red ink, 'MOD-1945-MANU' and 'ACTIVE FILE' in blue ink, as well as a numbered list of names written in different inks (27 in total).

Includes:
-photograph of Charles in the front row of a lecture theatre, with some attendees using headphones (including Charles)
-typescript headed 'Chapter II A Theory of Value' with manuscript corrections and notes on the reverse
-manuscript notes headed [illegible] on trial Sept 1966?'
-envelope with manuscript notes on both sides headed 'what a boar to know Doctor Banham' and 'The Failure of Success', folded and used as a folder to hold: a review of Banham's The New Brutalism by Nikolaus Pevsner; typescript letter to the editor of The Guardian from Isaac Bickerstaff; cutting of a letter to the editor from Fred Partridge [publication unknown] and typescript version of the same letter with manuscript corrections; typescript letter to the editor signed Charles Jencks, Architectural Association in response to Reyner Banham and manuscript draft; typescript letter to the editor signed Fred Partridge in response to Reyner Banham; manuscript notes headed 'The flip side of Dr Banham'; review of Banham's The New Brutalism by Stephen Mullion from New Society 8 Dec 1966; article titled 'Monumental Folly' by Peter Hall, New Society 24 Oct 1968, annotated.
-typescript headed 'The Major Histories' with manuscript annotations
-manuscript notes on plain paper headed 'Pevsner'
-manuscript notes on plain and lined paper headed 'Banham' [possibly not all Charles' hand]
-typescript headed 'Giedion SpaceTime and Arch'
-manuscript notes headed 'Scully'
-manuscript notes headed 'Collins Changing Ideal in MA 1965 (reaction to Giedion & space)'
-manuscript notes headed 'Hitchcok Arch. 19th & 20th centuries' with biro sketches
-envelope labelled 'Historians: Pevsner, Banham 1966-1971, Summerson 1981-4, Pei' [empty]
-manuscript headed 'The Failure of Success' including a copy typescript letter from Charles to Mr De Carlo asking to be able to attend the Urbino meeting
-manuscript headed 'Banham Le Corbusier chapter'
-typescript copy letter from Charles to Reyner Banham responding to his criticisms
-manuscript comments [from Reyner Banham], titled by Charles 'Partially a response to Outline?'
-typescript and manuscript headed 'Foreward'
-manuscript letter and notes from Reyner Banham to Charles [letter on headed paper], attached to a typescript headed 'Aalto and some concepts of value
-typescript headed 'Modern Architecture' with manuscript notes [from Reyner Banham] attached
-typescript headed 'History as Myth: 1st revision, Banham notes'.
-typescript and manuscript notes headed 'Modern architecture - the tradition since 1945: a list of architects to be criticised'
-typescript diagram with numerical values applied to architect's names
-typescript headed 'Diagram Relation of American Architects'
-article from Time 2 Aug 1968 titled 'Modern Living'
-article from Newsweek 20 Mar 1967 titled 'The Architects Come Into Their Own', annotated
-article from the International Herald Tribune 29-30 May 1971 titled 'Celebrities Jam Gala Premiere at JFK Center', annotated
-article from The New York Times Magazine 17 Oct 1971 by Paul Goldberger, annotated
-manuscript diagram of architect's names headed 'Camp Non Camp'
-manuscript diagrams
-pages from ROBAJ Jun 1966, 'RIBA Annual Discourse' by Myron Goldsmith, annotated
-folded titled 'John Summerson + Charles Jencks, exchanges over PMC [Post-Modern Classicism] 1981, FSC [Freestyle Classicism] 1982, + TH [Thematic House] 1984 including manuscript letters from Summerson to Charles and typed copies; and copy typescript letters from Charles to Summerson; as well as: typescript headed 'The New Taboo: Ure Chisel'; a leaflet for Das Linz Café; typescript titled 'The Face of the Vernacular' and captions; a sketch labelled 'Validimir - Moscow 19/10/93'; a letter on Little Sparta headed paper from Ian [Hamilton Finlay] regarding the garden scheme; draft typescript letter from Charles on UCLA headed paper to I.M. Pei, 1983 and reply; letter from I.M. Pei to Henry Kewswick regarding Maggie, 2003
-typescript letter from Nikolaus Pevsner on Birkbeck College headed paper to Charles declining to supervise his thesis, and copy typescript reply from Charles; cuttings on Pevsner.

House & Garden
CJA-RES-AL-B13-5-17 · Item · Jun 1984
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes 'Cape Cod Blues: An enlightened studio and a talk with its owners, architectural historian Charles Jencks and garden scholar Maggie Keswick'. Photographs by Charles. House & Garden
Academy Group Limited 1993
CJA-RES-AL-B13-5-20 · Item · 1993
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Catalogue of Aacdemy Group publications including a special section of books by Charles, and the second edition of Maggie's The Chinese Garden The World Of Interiors
domus 623
CJA-RES-AL-B13-6-18 · Item · Dec 1981
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes: cover image of Charles (taken by Maggie) and an article by Charles titled 'The... New... International... Style... E Altre Etichette': Il design neo-moderno analizzato attraverso tre recenti produzioni italiane: la collezione Memphis, il Alessi, il di Alchimia/ Neo-modern design as seen in three recent Italian collections: the memphis collection, Alessi's Programma 6, Alchimia's Mobile Infinito. Bilingual Italian/English Domus
Post-Modern Classicism
CJA-RES-AL-B13-6-33 · Item · 1980
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Guest-edited by Charles; includes an introduction and an article titled 'London Flat' by Charles [photos include Maggie and a Jencksiana]

Publisher: Academy Editions

AD
CJA-RES-AL-B13-6-34 · Item · 1987
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Includes articles titled 'Post-Modernism and Discontinuity' and 'Post-Modernism and Eclectic Continuity' by Charles; 'Cathay in the West: Pavilions and a Chinese Garden in Bel Air, California' by Charles and Maggie; and 'Letters to the Editor: Designing a House' with a detailed response to Terry Farrell's article in a previous issue of AD, and Farrell's response.

Publisher: Academy Editions

AD
CJA-TCH-a-11 · File · nd [1978-1979]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Bundle of designs, plans and photographs. Each consists of a card support, with a the original drawing or photograph attached to the card with tape, and then tracing paper layered over the top with dimensions for reproduction.

Includes:
-Room of Doubles
-'South Elevation - CJ design'
-'Ground Floor - CJ design'
-[Ground Floor] - 'MK's original layout'
-'West Elevation'
-'MK's Garden Design Dec 78/Jan 79'
-'First Floor Alternative: A Stepped Study'
-detailed pencil plan with details of columns annotated 'Feb 19, 1979 This must be full page as it is described at length!!!'
-Front elevation annotated 'only bottom drawing'
-photocopied front elevation
-'TFP proposed longitudonal[sic] section Jan 1979'
-'CJ Sketch Nov 78'
-b&w photograph of Nan's Room and of a staircase pre-renovation.
-'First Floor CJ Design'
-section of the house
-photocopy of a sketch of the Room of Doubles with birds drawn around it
-typescript text on The Sun Chair
-CJ sketch Oct 78 annotated 'must be Nov?'
-b&w photographs of chairs

CJA-TCH-a-3 · File · Jul 1978-May 1984
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled "1st Schemes: Lansdowne Walk: CJ & M. Fisher 1978' with 'July-Oct 1978' annotated in a different pen.

The folder includes:
-b&w photograph of the original stairwell
-ink drawings on tracing paper by Charles including the South Elevation, West Elevation, Ground Floor plan, First Floor plan and an unlabelled section of the house
-Maggie's original ink design of the ground floor on tracing paper
-photocopies of the original designs
-rough sketches and notes in ink on graph and lined paper
-ink and pencil sketches on plain paper and tracing paper, including alternative front elevation design
-pencil floor plans on plain and tracing paper
-photocopies of elevations, sections and floor plans labelled 'as proposed by Charles Jencks'
-typescript and manuscript correspondence from Fisher Associates regarding hourly rates, planning applications and estimates for roof repairs; the letters also include personal notes from Michael Fisher
-drawing by Fisher Associates of the Proposed Front Elevation (folded)
-rough ink sketches of floor plans on plain paper
-elevation drawing (folded)
-typescript document with multiple pen and pencil annotations by Charles on yellow and white lined paper. The document was originally titled 'The Thematic House/ The Matic How See/Design Credits' but this title is crossed through and it has been labelled 'Appendix: Design credits at the Thematic House'. The document gives a detailed history of the development of designs for The Thematic House both overall and on a room-by-room basis.