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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.

Contents of a folder labelled 'Charles Jencks - Notes on Reading 1950-1961; Coleridge on Imagination, Brooks; Koestler; Korzybski; Gombrich Levi-Strauss [illegible]; Rowe; Alexander; Appreciation for Study'. The folder is also labelled 'Theory'.

The folder comprises predominantly manuscript notes on plain and lined paper. Including notes headed:
-Meaning of Meaning - Richards
-Coleridge on Imagination
-On Coleridge
-Classical Tradition of Unity
-Structure in Art & Science - Richards
-The Act of Creation - Koestler
-Theory of Architecture - Alexander
-Cybernetics and biology
-Korzybski
-typescript titled 'An Instant Guide to Meaning'
-neutra
-typescript titled 'Moretti - Form as Structure'
-typescript titled 'Architecture Since 1945'
-Modern Poetry and the Tradition - Brooks
-Quotes
-Poverty of Historicism - Popper
-Historical Statements and Logical Statements - Bone
-Spender
-Feeling and Form - S. Langer [on Ivor David Balding headed paper]
-cutting from The New York review titled 'A Late Romantic' by Wylie Sypher
-Logic and Criticism - Righter
-Style and Styistics - Warren & Weller
-Arnold
-Theory of Myths - Fryer
-The Structure of Complex Words - Empson
-Gothic Arch. and Scholasticism - Panofsky
-Atttitudes to Cities - Colin Rowe
-Structural Anthropology - Levi-Strauss
-Gombrich & Perception
-Gestalt Theory of Expression
-Vitruvius - Villard - Alberti - Palladio - S.H. Wotten
-M. McCarthy
-draft application form for a United States Government Grant for study abroad, completed in typescript with annotations, 1964
-Attitudes and Assumptions
-typescript titled 'Foreward' with an outline of an exposition on architecture

Publisher: Academy Editions.

Inserted: note relating to a lecture on sacred architecture by Tad Mann.