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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.

[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B13-3-31 · File · 2009-2011
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a plastic folder [removed for conservation reasons]. Includes:
-invitation to the opening of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the V&A
-reviews of 1:1 - Architects build small spaces at the V&A
-typescript document titled 'The Canons of Post-Modernism 2' by Charles with annotations
-manuscript notes on the reverse of a printed out email making arrangements for an event at the V&A titled 'Defining Postmodernism'
-reviews of Radical Postmodernism: Architectural Design' edited by Charles and FAT
-interview with Charles on the Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A in the RA Magazine
-printed letter to the editor of the Architectural Review from Charles
-plastic envelope containing printed out composite images titled 'The Leviathan sunk by the critics: the truth speaks, the critic smiles' with figures including Jane Jacobs, Hannah Arendt, Aung Sann Suu Kyi, Anna Politkovskaya, Rachel Carson, Simon Jenkins, Jeremy Paxman and Naom [sic] Chomsky.
-typescript titled "Post-Modernism Resurgent - ten buildings that made a difference' by Charles, with annotations
-typescript titled 'V&A Dinner on PM Sept 20, 2011' by Charles with annotations
-typescript titled 'The Return of Postmodernism' by Charles with annotations
-arrangements for an interview with The Sunday Times to promote The Story of Post-Modernism
-pages from the V&A Magazine Autumn Winter 2011
-printout from The Art Newspaper titled 'The rebirth of postmodern design'
-Fulcrum: The AA's Weekly Free Sheet issue 27, 9 Nov 2011 including an interview with Charles by Jack Self, and covering note
-reviews of Postmodernism at the V&A
-arrangements for Charles to appear on BBC's Night Waves
-arrangements for filming a promotional video for the V&A
-contract for a promotional film for Wiley
-arrangements for press interviews for The Story of Postmodernism
-plastic envelope including reviews, typescript titled 'The Legacy of Post Modernism' by Colin Fournier with Charles' annotations
-The Sunday Times Home 4 Sep 2011 with Charles on the cover and the headline 'Less is a bore'
CJA-RES-AL-B13-6-34 · Item · 1987
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Includes articles titled 'Post-Modernism and Discontinuity' and 'Post-Modernism and Eclectic Continuity' by Charles; 'Cathay in the West: Pavilions and a Chinese Garden in Bel Air, California' by Charles and Maggie; and 'Letters to the Editor: Designing a House' with a detailed response to Terry Farrell's article in a previous issue of AD, and Farrell's response.

Publisher: Academy Editions

AD
CJA-VBE-3 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Contents of a folder labelled '1980 Biennale/Biennale 1980 Russia etc. 93 slides 4BxW + documents'. Includes:
-colour film strip showing men in a factory/workshop
-plastic strips containing 12 slides, one labelled 'Biennale 1982'
-negative strips [showing 1980 Biennale], bag annotated with instructions for printing
-photocopied typescript titled ‘Translation: The Tournament’ relating to the XIV Congress of UIA, Warsaw. S. Okojomox, Warsaw-Moscow’.
-manuscript letter from Glazytchev Slava in Moscow regarding translations of Charles’ work, their publication in domus, work with Eugene [Rosenblum] and Mark [Konik] under the auspicises of Artists’ Union and work of others throughout the Soviet Republic with sketch drawings of the buildings.
-publication: Архитектура ИЗДАЕТСЯ СОВМЕСТНО С СОЮЗОМ АРХИТЕКТОРОВ СССР И ГОСГРАЖДАНСТРОЕМ № 16 (500) 2 августа 1981 [Russian language]
-copied typescript document headed ‘Digging up the past: treatment for a 45 minute film’ to document post-modern architect and be presented and co-authored by Charles, by Scott Thomas, 1981; annotated.
-manuscript letter from Suzanne [Frank] at The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; annotated.
-postcard of New York from [illegible] [Stephens], annotated by Charles ‘re Vidler piece’
Centre D’Etudes et de Recherches Architecturales, Paris - Bulletin d’information inter-establissements no 51 Mai 1980 with a paragraph annotated ‘translate’
-guidelines for submissions to the Arts Films Committee
-manuscript letter from Scott [Thomas] regarding the film, including a list of people on the Arts Films Advisory Committee
-typescript letter from Scott Thomas regarding a proposed film on Post-Modernism for a general audience and a copy letter from Carter H Manny at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
-photocopies from an unknown publication, on classicism; annotated
-typescript copy letter from Charles titled ‘Letters to the Editor Re: Classical confusion’ regarding an article by Tony Vidler [1981]
-postcard of a drawing of a building by Hans Robert Hiegel, used as a Christmas Card
-christmas letter from Thomas and [Marina] Smith
-cutting on Ricardo Bofill's Le Palaccio d'Abraxas
-manuscript notes titled ‘The Reurbanisation of Runcorn’ [not Charles’ hand]
-anuscript article ‘The transformation of Chandigarh – Rodrigo Pérez de Arce'
-manuscript letter from Kazuhiro Ishii on Kazuro Ishii Architect & Associates headed paper regarding windows in Charles’ "Post-Modernism book".
-typescript letter from Laurence Booth on Booth/Hansen & Associated headed paper regarding Post Modern Classicism, 1980
-typescript letter from Paolo Portoghesi thanking Charles for the material concerning the “Mosque of London’ and inviting him to be on the experts committee for the Venice Biennale, 1979
-manuscript list of architects’ names on Los Angeles: School of Architecture and Urban Planning headed paper
-receipt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art photograph services, 1981
-typescript letter from Eugene Kupper enclosing material for the Venice Biennale, 1980
-typescript letter from Helle Klint asking to feature on of Charles’ houses in a monthly column for Berlingske Tidende, enclosing an example, 1979
-typescript document titled ‘Contemporary Architects: Publication Spring 1979 (London: Macmillan, NYC: St Martin’s) with details of the editor, advisory board and contributors with a covering notes from Muriel Emanuel asking Charles to contribute, 1978
-manuscript lists of architect’s names, titled ‘C.Jencks’ sub-headed Japan, USA, Europe/England
-change of address from Kuro and Chris Fawcett, on the reverse a manuscript list of Japanese architects
-manuscript lists of architects sub headed ‘Japanese metaphysical school + symbolism’, ‘USA historicism, symbolism, [remainder], ‘European historicism, urbanism, vernacular’
-business card for Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri
-photograph of an unidentified man in front of the Holy Trinity [Kingsway] church
-cutting from Building Design 9 July 1982 on the Art and Architecture Action Group at the ICA
-typescript note titled ‘(for Stirling Bayer)’ regarding Lutyens' Midland Bank headquarters.
-leaflet for laboratorio de arquitectura 1982 centro de arte y comunicaión, Viamonte
-L. A Architecture: A publication of the Los Angeles Chapter, American Institute of Architects Vol 7 No 3 Mar 1981 including a mention of Charles lecturing on Post-Modern Classicism at the Pacific Design Center
-Architectural Association School of Architecture Events list 10, Autumn Term 8-10 Dec 1980 including an exhibition on Garagia Rotunda and a lecture on Post-Modern Classicism by Charles
-typescript letter from Romi Khosla on The Grüp New Delhi headed paper, asking if their work was featured in Charles’ book, 1981
-photocopied review of Signs, Symbols and Architecture by Linda groat, sent by Geoffrey Broadbent
-cutting from the International Herald Tribune 21 May 1982 on demographics
-manuscript letter from Humphrey B[illegible] regarding a meeting with Robert on Brown’s Hotel notepaper regarding a meeting with Robert
-cutting from an unidentified publication 'Neo-classical (again)' by Loyd Grossman
-cutting from an unidentified publication [possibly the Maltings Free Press] on Jeremy Dixon with annotations
-photocopy from Casabella No. 470 6/1981 titled 'Post-post....'
-typescript document titled ‘Palladio and the Japanese’
-manuscript letter from Edward Jones 'acting as a messenger for Christian Broza' with some drawings and talking about what movements Charles has left out of his “family tree”
-b&w professional photographs of the Venice Biennale
-cutting of ‘The Presence of the Past’ by Charles in domus 61 [in Italian] with compliments slip