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[Unlabelled folder]
-CJA-PTK-29 · File · 1993
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of an unlabelled green card and plastic folder [folder removed for conservation reasons]. Includes:
-manuscript notes headed 'Bernard Carr, Minds and Other Worlds'
-fax on University of Adelaide headed paper from Paul Davies to Charles, saying that he is unable to attend the conference and suggesting alternative names, 1993
-manuscript equations on plain white and green paper
-manuscript draft fax to Stuart Silverstone from Charles, discussing the hierarchical structure and levels but insisting that the vary each part of the 'story' of evolution; use of blobs as well as square for each 'family' or 'age'
-typescript fax [faded] from Stuart Silverstone to Charles discussing the design process for 'the timeline' of 'the evolution of evolution', 1993
-manuscript letter from Charles to Stuart Silverstone on headed paper sending the write-up of the conference, 1993
-typescript faxes from Stuart Silverstone to Charles discussing the visualisation and levels of hierarchy, 1993
-manuscript draft fax from Charles to Stuart Silverstone responding to questions
-manuscript sketch diagram on pink paper, annotated '4 faces, how to represent 4-ness' and '1)speeding up 2)more organised and complex -> more mind'.
-CJA-PTK-31 · File · 1971-1999
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled 'P-M Economies Alfred Chandler 'The Visible Hand' 1974 Corporation'. Folder not retained. Includes:
-cuttings on the 100th anniversary of the Paris Commune [1971]
-manuscript notes with headings including Anarchism, Tolstoy, French Rev, the Jencks Political Calculator [diagram], Marxist-Leninst dialectic, Photo list, Socialism and American Art, Victor Serge 'Memoirs of a Revolutionary'.
-published article 'Paternalism and welfare reform' by Besharov and Gardiner from The Public Interest, 1996
-published article 'The Transformation of Policy in the New World Economy: Networks and Collaborative Program Design' from the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, 1993
-published article 'Local government, industrial policy and social consensus: the case of Modena (Italy), by Brusco and Righi, published in Economy and Society Vol 18: 1, Nov 1989
-typescript 'What is to be done? A proposal for research on small firm industrial organisation' presented by Hubert Schmitz at the EADI Workshop on flexible specialization and industrialization in the third world, 14-16 Jun 1991
-photocopy 'The Economy of Reasons' by Jane Jacobs, published the E.F. Schuacher Society, 1983
-photocopy typescript titled 'Culture and Finance Capital'

Folder for the CAYC Centre de arte y comunicación 1969-1992 containing:
-photocopy from 'Complexity' by M. Mitchell Waldron, 1992, annotated
-typescript titled 'The Triumph of Socialism: The New Economy' (corrected to: Socialism: the new stage of capitalism',annotated and continued as manuscript, 1988
-manuscript notes on yellow and pink paper headed 'PM Economies and the New [Visible] Hand'
-photocopy typescript starting at page 3 headed 'Five stage of economic growth'
-pages from Time 10 Jul 1995 on George Soros
-pages from Scientific American Feb 1999 'A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street'
-pages from The New York Review 23 Sep 1999
-published article 'New game, new rules, new strategies' lecture by Professor Lester Thurow, published in RSA Journal Nov 1994
-photocopy 'The Economy of Regions' by Jane Jacobs, published by the E.F. Schumacher Society 1983

-manuscript diagram of Democracy with felt-tip pen drawings

-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
Evolution Diag.
-CJA-RES-AL-DL-21-19 · File · nd [1979-1999]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Red plastic box containing slides, annotated 'Evolution Diag.' in red ink, [illegible]' in red and black ink, and 'Anytime' in blue ink, crossed out in red.
LPMA - EXTRAS 1977-1991
CJA-LPA-2 · File · 1977-1991
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled 'LMPA - EXTRAS 1977-1991'. Includes:
-loose photographs, some marked up for reproduction
-envelope from the Groninger Museum
-typescript titled 'How the building systems work semantically (could include as insert box)' with a diagram
-letter from Claire-Marie Brolly in French, with typescript translation into English, enclosing a reproduction of an illustration from her thesis as a response to reading The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
-strips of transparencies
-manuscript notes headed 'Post-Modern Space + Precedents (50)' with notes for a diagram
-photocopies and cuttings from unidentified publications
-letter of transmittal from Johansen & Bhavnani Architects to Academy Editions, enclosing images of Mummers Theater and Ad-hoc House
-cutting from Building Design 8 October 1999 on Nigel Coates
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.

CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-22 · Item · Jun 2016
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes 'The Singapore paradox and the style of Generic Individualism' by Charles. Page marked with a post-it-note. The Architectural Review
A. D.
CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-48 · Item · Oct 1970
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Includes an article titled 'The Evolutionary Tree' by Charles. AD