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[Loose papers]
-CJA-PTK-10 · File · 1994-1999
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Bundle of papers found loose. Includes:
-6 colour photographs [taken at Portrack seminars?] printed on Fujicolor paper, [1994]
-1 colour photograph of Charles speaking to [unidentified man] at a table in a garden [at Portrack?], printed on Konica Long Life 100 paper
-2 colour photographs, printed on Kodak paper showing [unidentified woman, man and child; the woman is wearing a cheongsam-style dress]
-typescript fax sent by Charles [recipient unknown] detailing the participants at and agenda of the Portrack Seminars in the context of a book publishing 'the rewritten papers delivered at the tenth meeting', 1999
-photocopy typescript document with headings: Portrack Seminars July 13-16th.17th?; acceptances; possibles; September 7-10th or 11th; with a list of name and contact details; annotated
-manuscript letter from Ihab Hassan on personal headed paper giving details of his location over the next few months and sending a paper by a graduate student on postodernism which makes use of Charles' work; enclosed: photocopy typescript 'The Postmodern Sublime' by Fevronia Novak, 1994
-photocopy published article by Charles 'The Post-Modern Agenda' [revised version of 'The Values of Post-Modernism', from Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture, 1987].
[Loose papers]
-CJA-PTK-20 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Material found loose and grouped together. Includes:
-stapled photocopy from ['Platitudes' by Trey Ellis] [staple removed for conservation reasons]
-manuscript list of attendees at the Portrack Seminar 13-17 July 1992
-offprint of 'Post-Modern Architecture and Time Fusion' by Charles published in 'International Postmodernism: theory and literary practice' (1997)
- manuscript letter from Charlene Spretnak on personal headed paper to Charles and Hans Bertens on the emerging field of 'Ecological literary criticism' (also: Eco Lit crit and Green cultural studies) in relation to the next Portrack Seminar, with a post-it note from Charlene telling Charles to put this letter in his Portrack file and send a copy on to Hans if relevant.
-cutting from The Times 15 Apr 2008, David Aaronovitch on Richard Falk's role as investigator for the UN Human Rights Council titled 'This is a UN "expert". I'd prefer "conspiracy crank"'.
-cutting titled 'In this postmodern world, what religious thinker may need if a scholarly new postcolonial posting' by Peter Steinfelks [New York Times]
-cutting titled 'Sheltered Lives and Public Postures' by Thomas Nagel, review of Richard A. Posner's Public Intellectuals, TLS 25 Jan 2002
-cutting titled 'Primary school teaches meaning of life' from The Times 25 Sep 2001
-cutting titled 'What is it about lemons?' by Thomas Nagel, review of 'The Quest for Reality' by Barry Stroud, London Review of Books, 20 Sep 2001, annotated
-typescript letter from Graham Dawes thanking Charles for arranging to have his handwritten notes sent to him, which enabled him gain an 'Impressionistic sense of the conference', and commenting on the work of Lakoff and Johnson, 2001
The Post-Modern Agenda
CJA-PTK-19 · File · [c1992]
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Proof typescript and two photocopies of 'The Post-Modern Agenda' by Charles, and contents page from 'The Post-Modern Reader' published by Academy Editions. Includes illustration plates.
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-19 · File · 1966-2017
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

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.

Civic Builders
CJA-RES-AL-B13-2-26 · Item · 2002
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Wiley-Academy

Includes 'Open Government in a Cynical Age' by Charles.

Fentress, Curtis W.
CJA-RES-AL-B13-2-27 · Item · 2010
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Wiley
Edited by Mark Garcia

Includes 'Architectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time' by Charles.

Includes correspondence [printed out emails] with Andrew Kovacs regarding diagrams and an email regarding the launch of Diagrams of Architecture at the AA.

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