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      • UF 19 Lansdowne Walk London W11 3AH
      • UF Thematic House
      • UF The Jencks House
      • UF The Matic House
      • UF Terrace House

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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.
      A+U Architect vs. Critic
      CJA-AVC-1 · File · 1982-1985
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive
      Contents of a folder labelled 'A+U Architect vs. Critic'. Folder contains 1 box of slides [catalogued separately as CJA-AVC-1-a] and also includes:
      -colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
      -folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
      -manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
      -photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
      -cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
      -leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
      -photocopy of the Jencksiana font
      -b&w photograph of the Elemental House
      -sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
      -sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
      -colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
      -typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
      -manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
      -typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
      -manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
      -typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
      -pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
      -copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending a symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
      -copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
      -printed proofs of line drawings
      -pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
      -poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]