The Cosmic House

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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.

      [Loose documents]
      CJA-RES-AL-B13-2-24 · Item
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive
      Bundle of loose papers including:
      -flyers for 'Critical Modernism: where is post-modernism going? by Charles
      -Evening Standard: Homes & Property 5 Oct 2011 'Status Symbols' interview with Charles
      -leaflet titled 'The deposit of your oral history recording at the British Library'
      -email correspondence between Charles and Geraint Franklin regarding a 'sound-biography', with Charles' manuscript notes
      -National Life Stories: Review and Accounts 2010/2011 comb-bound brochure
      -bibliography for [redacted] annotated 'an old student of mine who wants to do an oral history'
      -print-outs of catalogue records for Peter Smithson's recordings at the National Life Story Collection
      -Typescript document titled 'Charles Jencks: Segments by Subject & Timeline'
      -typescript document titled 'Curriculum Vitae - Charles Alexander Jencks' [c2011]
      -typescript document titled 'A first stab at content and structure'
      -Geraint Franklin cv
      -Oral History recording agreement signed by Charles
      -transparencies of 19 Lansdowne Walk by Andreas von Einsiedel
      [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-TCH-a-18 · File · [1980]
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive

      Contents of a folder labelled 'Ground Floor Cosmic Oval 4.41-4.43'

      Includes:
      -pencil and ink sketches on paper and tracing paper.
      -photocopy of a drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Detail of [Oval] Studwork Ground Floor Hall], Oct 1980 (folded)./
      -pencil and coloured pencil sketch of the ceiling.
      -photocopy of an untitled drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership with a plan for the Cosmic Oval showing measurements and doors.

      London Column
      CJA-TCH-a-26 · File · nd [1978-1983]
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive

      Contents of a folder labelled 'London Column'.

      Includes:
      -ink designs for columns, coloured in with pencil, overlayed with tracing paper labelled 'TSA 136'
      -pencil sketches of column designs on paper and tracing paper
      -ink sketches of column designs
      -photocopied column designs
      -coloured pencil sketches of column designs
      -prints on photographic paper of computer-generated column designs with numbers
      -rough ink sketches and manuscript notes on headed paper for The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
      -pencil sketches and coloured pencil sketches on paper and tracing paper
      -pencil sketches on the reverse of University of California, Los Angeles headed paper relating to sun, rain and column symbols.
      -pencil and ink sketches on notepaper showing the exterior of the house
      -print outs of computer-generated designs with variables listed at the side including facets at shaft, facets at base and number of columns.
      -ink drawing labelled 'London Column' with notes on the weather and hifi speakers on blue paper

      Extras
      CJA-TCH-b-36 · File · nd [1984-1985]
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive

      Contents of an envelope labelled 'Extras' containing slides, photographs, correspondence and transparencies.

      Includes:
      -compliments slip from Richard Bryant
      -b&w photographs by Robin Laurence for NYT of Charles' Biedermeier chairs alongside some of the Symbolic Furniture, and Charles sitting on one of the Sun chairs, stamped on reverse,1985
      -photograph from the collection of the National Monuments Record of a unidentified historic building
      -colour polaroids of the Foursquare Room
      -b&w photographs of Esna, Temple of Khnum, one with extensive annotations, and the pyramid of King Chephren
      -colour transparencies by Richard Bryant
      -b&w photographs of the Elemental House
      -b&w photographs of the Architectural Library, John's Room and Lily's Room with the furniture installed but no other furnishings
      -colour photograph of the West elevation
      -b&w negative of Winter
      -letter from Mark Lewis of Lewis & Horning regarding the work he did on Indian Summer, 1985
      -cutting from an unidentified magazine
      -manuscript notes labelled 'Richard Bryant' with a list of rooms in a variety of different handwritings, including notes about Medite
      -b&w polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval
      -transparencies inside tracing paper, annotated for publication
      -colour slides of rooms in the Thematic House labelled 'C Jencks: not used before. 20 slides - 4 Square RM + Bathpool' but including most of the ground floor, the Time Garden and the chimneys
      -letter from William Stok regarding photography of this mural and enclosing a postcard of a work by Chagall [not included], 1985
      -colour transparency of the Garagia Rotunda annotated 'Chapter 2'
      -envelope enclosing b&w photographs with a message from 'Eamon of the shop'
      -b&w photograph of Charles in front of the Spring fireplace [over-sized, damaged]
      -b&w photograph of Charles and Maggie in front of the Spring fireplace. Charles is holding a mobile phone [over-sized, damaged]

      Facades 3.3
      CJA-TCH-b-37 · File · nd [1983-1985]
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive

      Contents of a folder labelled 'Facades 3.3' with 'Face of the Vernacular' crossed out underneath.

      Colour transparencies and ink drawings with tracing paper covers. The images have been prepared for publication with outlines and measurements drawn in pencil, attached to pieces of paper. The papers are labelled with TSA numbers (TSA88/89. TSA 100/101, TSA 102). The transparencies show the exterior of the house.

      CJA-TCH-b-38 · File · nd [1984-1985]
      Part of Charles Jencks Archive

      Bundle of photographs and an illustration.

      Includes:
      -b&w polaroid photograph of Spring, tracing paper attached marked for publication. Annotated 'A/A files/Book reviews p110 A'.
      -colour photograph of the Spring fireplace
      -colour photograph of the Cosmic Oval
      -colour photograph of the shelves in Indian Summer
      -colour photograph looking into the Sundial Arcade
      -b&w print on photographic paper of the bookplate design inside Towards A Symbolic Architecture, with some of the text glued on