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-CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-18 · File · 1950-1964
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

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

-CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-11 · Item · 1971
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Studio Vista, London

Dedication inside 'For Maggie, let's meet in 30 years, with love & affection, Charles 5/11/71'. Also annotated 'Return to Charles Jencks, 19 Lansdowne Walk London W11 3AH' and 'Abigail Gratec [phone number]'.

The volume has been extensively annotated with typescript glued in additions, as well as direct annotations on the text.

Jencks, Charles Alexander
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-10 · Item · 1971
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Praeger Publishers, N.Y.

Bookplate for Portrack House on the inside front cover, and dedication 'To Clare & John & Portrack' from Charles on the first page, May 1978.

Jencks, Charles Alexander