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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
[Loose documents]
CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-21 · File
Part of Charles Jencks Archive
Loose documents including:
-article by Edwin Heathcote titled 'The bad and the beautiful '[2013]
-article by Simon Wilson titled 'Naked Ambition' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Amazing maths of the mosaic makers' [2007]
-review by Rachel Campbell-Johnston of the 'Beyond Measure' exhibition at Kettle's Yard
-obituary of Jean Baudrillard from The Times [2007]
-review by Alison Lurie titled 'When is a Building Beautiful' of books by Alain de Botton and Deborah Cohen [2007]
-exhibition listings with 'Eternal Woman: The female form in Antiquity' circled [2005]
-article by Philip Howard tutled 'Ara Kallipygos eimi' [2006]
-article by Alain de Botton titled 'Beauty and the beasts'
-photocopy of Charles' entry in the Dictionary of Cultural Theorists with corrections, and a letter from Rob Stone responding
-press release for and invitation to the Neuroaesthetics conference at Goldsmiths College [2006]
-press release for Artbrain.org 3
-correspondence [letters and printed out e-mails] between Charles and various correspondents including David Griffin, Charlene Spretnak, Michael Zimmerman, Linda Hutcheon
-typescript list of Portrack seminars 1992-1998 and their participants
-review by Charles of John Armstrong's The Secret Power of Beauty titled 'Beauty's comeback' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Experts figure out why men prefer Marilyn' [2004]
-news articles from the New Scientist [2008]
-article by Jason Cowley titled 'And the winner is?' [2006]
-article by Steve Yates titled 'The sound of capitalism' [2011]
A New Beauty?
CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-16 · File · 1999-2002
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Contents of a folder labelled from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg labelled by Charles 'a new beauty?'

Includes:
-Press release and transparencies for the Jackson Pollock exhibition at the Tate Gallery 1999
-photocopies from 'They Have A Word for It' by Howard Rheingold chapter 4 'The Eye of the Beholder: conceptions of Beauty'
-press cutting on the 7 year itch with an image of Marilyn Monroe [2001]
-rejection letter from Thames & Hudson for an unnamed book proposal [1999]
-photocopy from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on brain synapses [1999]
-manuscript fax from Charles to Adrian Hamilton at the Independent enclosing 12 pages [not enclosed]
-fax from The Independent regarding Charles' article on Beauty [1999]
-manuscript notes headed 'New Paradigms'
-leaflet for an event held at the [Architectural Association] titled Paradigm Shifts featuring Charles
-article titled 'Keeping An Eye on Nature' by Professor David Cooper
-typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty'
-manuscript notes on Harvard Club of New York City headed paper
-itinerary in Bologna and Venice
-review by Paul Mattick of Wendy Steiner's 'Venus in Exile'.
-article by Charles titled 'Our modern age requires a new definition of beauty' from The Independent [1999]
--typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty' with manuscript notes in a different hand
-review by Hal Foster of 'Nobrow' by John Seabrook [2000]
-review by Kendall L Walton of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [2000]
-article by Miles Under titled 'Finding Art in Random Images Is as old as Art Itself' [2000]
-bundle of photocopies newspaper articles with annotations
-three sheets of slides, one with a covering note from the Royal Academy of Arts
-postcards of work by Franz X. Messerschmidt
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'brightly coloured beaks are the key to birds sex appeal'
-typescript by Charles titled 'EP Phone Home or What a Pleasure to Meet Mr Darwin' [18 pages]
-photocopies of the cover pages for 'Music, the Brain and ecstasy' by Robert Jourdan
-manuscript notes headed '8,500 words: Louisa's comments'.
-dust cover for Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble With Beauty'
-postcard of the hall at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
-reviews of Geoffrey Miller's 'The Mating Mind' [2000]
-article by Daniel McNeill titled 'The hidden face of beauty' [1999]
-manuscript draft guestlist for a proposed Portrack seminar on Beauty, to be held 2002/2003
-colour transparency marked for publication in The Jumping Universe
-article by Massimilano Finazzer Flory titled 'Beauty - not a context, but a need and an opportunity'
-review by Marina Warner or Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble with Beauty' [2002]
-article by Michael Prowse titled 'Let's clip the tails of the peacocks that strut around the boardroom'
-still from Barbarella
-postcard of Jake & Dinos Chapman's Hell
-review of Hugh Pearman of the British Museum's 'Defining Beauty' exhibition
-postcards of the Venus von Willendorf from the Naturhistorische Museum Wien and Arcimboldo works from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
-invitation to the launch of Wendy Steiners 'The Trouble with Beauty'
-article by Jackie Wullschlager titled 'Beauty in the labyrinth' [2000]
-page from the New Scientist with reviews of multiple books.

CJA-RES-AL-B17-R3-19 · Item · 10 Sep 2005
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Typescript document including photographs, with the transcription of an interview of Kurokawa by Obrist and Koolhas with multiple post-it note annotations.

Inserted: manuscript notes on lined yellow paper headed 'Kurokawa'; typescript document titled 'Charles Jencks on Kurokawa: In Conversation with Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist' annotated "Kayoko Sept 2010' with annotations and post-it note

Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Metabolism in Architecture
CJA-RES-AL-B17-R2-9 · Item · 1977
Part of Charles Jencks Archive

Publisher: Studio Vista London

Annotated 'Charles Jencks'.

Includes introduction by Charles. Inserted: negative strips labelled 'Kurokawa pointing at himself CJ photo' and '[illegible] tea hut'; review of the book by Reyner Banham in the TLS 12 August 1977; printed out email from Michael Gibert seeking to clarify statements Charles made in an interview about Kurokawa, with reply from Charles, 2013

Kurokawa, Kisho