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              -CJA-RES-AL-B13-1-20 · File · 1967-1984
              Part of Charles Jencks Archive

              Bundle of documents found loose on the shelf. Includes:
              -cutting titled 'Cars without Chaos' from The Listener 22 May 1975, annotated
              -cutting from The Sunday Times 25 May 1975 about the village of Debenham
              -stapled bundle of cuttings from New Society 1974-1975 relating to town and cities, annotated
              -incomplete manuscript notes on cities
              -manuscript and typescript notes on Byker, Newcastle
              -typescript titled 'Rough outline for Animal Architects' by Charles [probably a script and treatment for a proposed television programme]
              -Typescript photocopied program for the seminar: architecture-innertown-government held 2-6 Jun 1975 a T.H. Eindhoven with manuscript notes on reverse
              -'Does Post-Modernism Communicate' by Linda Groat and David Canter photocopied from [Progressive Architecture], Dec 1979
              -'The past and future of research on meaning in architecture: the case for architectural theory as a basis for future research' by Linda N. Groat, photocopied from Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Conference, 1983
              -Book review titled 'Meaning in Architecture: new directions and sources' by Linda Groat, photocopied from Journal of Environmental Psychology 1981:1, including Signs, Symbols and Architecture by Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt and Charles.
              -'Measuring the Fit of New to Old' by Linda Groat photocopied from Architecture Nov 1983
              -'Public Opinions of Contextual Fit' by Linda Groat photocopied from Architecture Nov 1984

              Cardboard sub-folder, annotated on the front with [word counts] and [chapter headings]. Includes:
              -manuscript letter from [?Otto von Simson] on Kunsthistorisches Institut, Der Freien Universität Berlin headed paper, thanking Charles for his invitation and discussing the revised German edition of his 'Cathedral book', 1967
              -typescript letters from Robert Venturi on Venturi and Rauch, Architects headed paper discussing the publication of an unidentified article, the publication of 'Learning from Las Vegas', his opinion of Charles's issue of Arena and thanking Charles for the copy of Roland Barthes, 1967-1968
              -typescript letter from Erwin Panofsky on The Institute for Advanced Study headed paper declining to contribute to 'Meaning in Architecture' due to his age and health, 1966
              -manuscript letters from Christian Norberg-Schulz on personal headed paper, regarding his contribution to Meaning in Architecture, 1967
              -manuscript letter from Kenneth Frampton regarding a potential contribution to the book on Meaning 1968
              -typescript letters from Susan Sontag regarding a potential contribution to a book, 1968
              -manuscript postcard and letter from Aldo van Eyck regarding a forthcoming article and photographs, 1967
              -typescript letter from EH Gombrich on The Warburg Institute headed paper, commenting on the proofs, 1968
              -Typescript titled 'Modern Architecture Symposium (MAS), 8-10 May 1964, Columbia University New York City 'The Decade 1929-1939' with a list of speakers.
              -typescript copy letter from Charles to Professor Gombrich inviting him to contribute to a forthcoming publication; typescript prospectus for Meaning in Architecture; typescript titled 'Outline of Meaning in Architecture' annotated with initials
              -manuscript letter from Aldo [van Eyck] regarding a drawing of a 'pavilion for sleeping' and responding to the criticisms of his essay in Meaning in Architecture.
              -manuscript letter from [?Aldo van Eyck] congratulating Charles on Meaning in Architecture, 1970
              -cutting of 'Building His Nest' by Nathan Silver from New Statesman 1 Sep 1967
              -cuttings of the letters page from New Society 31 Aug 1967 and 7 Sep 1967, including letters from, Charles and Reyner Banham responding to one another.
              -printed drawing titled 'Anatomy of a Dwelling' [François Dallegret]
              -typescript titled 'An Instant Guide to Meaning'
              -typescript titled 'Semiology - the theory of signs (outline of a lecture by Charles Jencks)' with hand-drawn diagrams and manuscript notes
              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'
              Post-Modernism & Discontinuity
              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
              1980 Biennale/Biennale 1980 Russia etc. 93 slides 4BxW + documents
              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