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.

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

Black folder with plastic pockets, labelled on the front on blue tape 'ADHOCISM THE CASE FOR IMPROVISATION'. Labelled inside the front cover 'C A JENCKS' on blue tape.

Inside the front pouch:
-manuscript document titled 'The Weird World of Adhocism'
-cards for exhibitions of miniature portraits and pet portraits by Rita Greer [1975]

The folder itself has a mix of items inside the plastic pockets and loose between the pockets. Includes:
-photographic reproductions of historic images
-cuttings from New Scientist
-photograph of Vesnin's Pravda Building annotated 'to illustrate GSSU Modern Movements Series'
-print-out reviews of the re-issued version of Adhocism
-letter from the MIT press enclosing author copies of the re-issue
-cuttings from newspapers
-b&w photographs and cuttings stuck to paper and labelled with typescript and manuscript annotations
-typescript document with manuscript additions titled 'Adhocism: The Transformed Object'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Creation Out of Subsystems'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Evolutionary Series'
-postcard to Charles from Stephen Bayley [2013]
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Art & Equipment'
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: Archeological City'
-letter from Bob Perry enclosing photographs with examples of humour in architecture in New Zealand
-Bulletin of the Institut de l'Environnement
-flyer for the Second Conference on Twentieth Century Design History, to be held at Middlesex Polytechnic April 1976, with a paper by Tony Wilkins titled The Development of Do-It-Yourself circled
-photostat of an article on architecture education at Goddard College
-typescript document titled 'Adhocism: The Ad Hoc Revolution'
-'exquisite corpse' style drawing

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.

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.