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Nature Talking with Nature
-CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-29 · Item · 2005
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Sonderdrunk aus [Off-print from] 'Return to Postmodernism: Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography: Festschrift in honour of Ihab Hassan' edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Jencks, Charles Alexander
Entrevista: Charles Jencks
-CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-24 · Item · Jun 2016
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a plastic folder [removed for conservation reasons]: pages of Teatro Marittimo N.5 comprising an interview with Charles by Alejandro Garcia Hermida and David Rivera. Teatro Marittimo
-CJA-TCH-a-18 · File · [1980]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'Ground Floor Cosmic Oval 4.41-4.43'

Includes:
-pencil and ink sketches on paper and tracing paper.
-photocopy of a drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Detail of [Oval] Studwork Ground Floor Hall], Oct 1980 (folded).
-pencil and coloured pencil sketch of the ceiling.
-photocopy of an untitled drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership with a plan for the Cosmic Oval showing measurements and doors.

-CJA-TCH-a-2 · File · 1978-1983
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'Farrell-Jencks Letters 1978-1983'.

The file comprises letters between Maggie and Charles, Terry Farrell and staff at the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership and Terry Farrell Partnership. Letters from Terry Farrell and his firm form the majority of the file; there are also some copy letters from Maggie and Charles, as well as photocopied correspondence from other parties, notes taken at meetings (manuscript and typescript) and a few draft designs. Many of the letters received from Terry Farrell/Terry Farrell Partnership have been annotated or have sketches on the reverse.

Topics covered include:
-programme of work
-builders and tradesmen
-fees and costs of work
-solar tempering
-planning consent
-program of work
-insurance
-reaction of neighbours to the designs and work
-cost/progress reports
-Venice Biennale
-request from Farrell for a name for the house
-credit for the designs
-problems arising due to working methods
-Charles' role as architect and client
-proposals for completion of works

Includes pages torn from Sunday Times Magazine 16 January 1983 with an article on Terry Farrell by Deyan Sudjic including discussion of the unfinished Jencks's house; photocopies of an Astragal piece in the AJ 19 May 1982 regarding the building work on 19 Lansdowne Walk and subsequent correspondence; incomplete manuscript notes (headed 3 and 4) regarding credit for the designs for the house.

London Column
-CJA-TCH-a-26 · File · nd [1978-1983]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'London Column'.

Includes:
-ink designs for columns, coloured in with pencil, overlayed with tracing paper labelled 'TSA 136'
-pencil sketches of column designs on paper and tracing paper
-ink sketches of column designs
-photocopied column designs
-coloured pencil sketches of column designs
-prints on photographic paper of computer-generated column designs with numbers
-rough ink sketches and manuscript notes on headed paper for The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
-pencil sketches and coloured pencil sketches on paper and tracing paper
-pencil sketches on the reverse of University of California, Los Angeles headed paper relating to sun, rain and column symbols.
-pencil and ink sketches on notepaper showing the exterior of the house
-print outs of computer-generated designs with variables listed at the side including facets at shaft, facets at base and number of columns.
-ink drawing labelled 'London Column' with notes on the weather and hifi speakers on blue paper

Drawings mostly Furniture
-CJA-TCH-a-41 · File · nd [1978-1984]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of an envelope labelled 'Drawings Mostly furniture'.

Includes:
-photocopied and pencil sketch chair designs
-magazine cutting of Jencksian motifs
-pencil drawings of a tall building labelled 'cosmos' at the top
-photocopied, photographic paper and pencil sketch lettering designs on paper and tracing paper
-manuscript letter from [illegible], Shepherd's Hill, Highgate and 70-71 New Bond Street regarding lettering and drawings of the house, 1984
-designs for the Sun table and chairs on tracing paper
-drawings of the Winter armchairs
-colour drawings of the Sun chairs
-coloured pencil drawings of the Danae light and House light
-colour drawings of the Spring sofas
-drawings of the Window Seat
-drawing of the Sun table
-Drawing of a Slidescraper
-photocopied cartoon 'All the wasms have become isms'
-pencil drawing on tracing paper 'Towards a symbolic architecture'

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]