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Report on the Sport-Culture Forum
-CJA-OYC-4 · Item · [Jun] 1997
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Published report of the forum held 6-7 June 1997 in Lausanne, organised by the Cultural Commission of the International Olympic Committee, with published versions of the papers. Includes 'The Golden Age of the Olympics' by Charles.

Loose insertions including correspondence about travel arrangements and a letter from Gerard Holton at Harvard about growth curves.

 International Olympic Committee
[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].
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 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
By Their Own Design
-CJA-RES-AL-B1-3-4 · Item · 1980
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Whitney Library of Design.

Inserted: note from the author thanking Charles for his help.

 Suckle, Abby
Prospect Issue 66
-CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-13 · Item · Aug/Sep 2001
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Includes an essay titled 'What is Beauty' by Charles.

Inserted:
-cutting 'In The Eye of the Beholder', reviews of books on Beauty, Los Amngeles Times 8 Jul 2001, annotated
-manuscript letter on Prospect headed paper, thanking Charles for the essay
-typescript letter on Royal Academy of Arts headed paper enclosing the agenda for the Architecture Forum Group and expressing disappointment that Charles is unable to attend the meeting, 5 Jul 2001; lined post-it notes attached headed 'Beauty'
-photocopy cutting of two hairdressing students from Dumfries and Galloway College, labelled 'D+G Standard 3-4-02'

 Prospect
The Japan Architect: international edition of Shinkenchiku: 232
-CJA-RES-AL-B12-1-14 · Item · Jun 1976
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Includes 'ArchiteXt and the Problem of Symbolism' by Charles. Post-it note on front labelled 'CJ'.

Inserted:
-pamphlet '山下和正　作品と方法 (Kazuma Yamashita and his way of architecture 1963-1975)', with typescript letter (signed) from Kazumasa Yamashita on 山下和正建築研究所 headed paper, 1975; photocopy article 'A New Compound Style' from JA July 1971; typescript titled 'My way of architecture' by Kazumasa Yamashita on 山下和正建築研究所 headed paper.
-typescript titled 'The Wood Culture - from "Human Architecture" (1970)' by Kiyonori Kikutake
-colour photograph showing [Pasadena Heights by Kiyonori Kikutake] under construction
-b&w photograph with covering note '"Torii" of Itsukushima shrine set in the sea'
-[fax/photostat] building plans labelled 1st floor plan and 6th floor plan in Japanese
-b&w photograph stamped on reverse 'Retoria, photo by Y. Futagawa'

 The Japan Architect