Time Garden

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    • *A New Description of The Cosmic House* by Edwin Heathcote, The Keeper of Meaning, with Charles Jencks, The Critic, and Charles Jencks, The Architect, First Edition, 2021, p.34

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      • UF Cosmic House Garden

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        Themes
        -CJA-TCH-a-7 · File · 1978-1984
        Part of Charles Jencks Archive

        Contents of a folder labelled 'Themes'.

        Includes:
        -colour polaroid of the Cosmic Oval
        -correspondence between Charles and Barbara Hoyle regarding Sir Fred Hoyle's contributions to the house
        -program for the Entrance Ellipse
        -correspondence between Charles and D McNally at the University of London Observatory, regarding an introduction to Fred Hoyle and new research in astronomy
        -manuscript and photocopied lettering designs
        -cuttings from Country Life 14 July 1983 regarding Villa Kerylos, French Riviera
        -typescript with manuscript alterations title 'The Thematic House'
        -astrological designs on tracing paper
        -photocopied typeface designs and details of a course on letter design for architects
        -colour, b&w photographs and floor plans of the [National Gallery of Art, Washington]
        -I.M. Pei & Partners program and statistics and press release for the National Gallery of Art [Washington] Expansion
        -manuscript notes on the National Gallery of Art, the Willow Tea Rooms, temples, Edzell castle
        -design for the sink in the Cosmic Loo
        -notes on the word 'cosmos' and for a frieze
        -contact sheet and negatives of built-in furniture within the house
        -manuscript notes listing rooms in the house and columns labelled 'drawings, sketches notes etc: what we have', 'Photographs: what we have' and 'What we need' dated 14 Dec 1984. There are coloured dots to indicate Maggie and Charles' preferences.
        -cutting from the Guardian 'The House that Jencks built' 1984 and photocopies
        -typescript notes titles 'Cultural History July 25th 1984 MK CK WS' relating to the frieze
        -news cuttings on astronomy
        -typescript notes titled 'Cultural Time' with manuscript annotations listing historical figures
        -typescript notes titled 'Seventeen Themes of the Thematic House The Matic How See' divided into general, historical & architectural and personal
        -printed typescript document titled 'Program for the Entrance Ellipse - The Cosmic Egg and Cultural History by Charles Jencks' with manuscript annotations and sketches on reverse.
        -manuscript and typescript draft lists of themes
        -typescript document titled 'William Stok December 2 1984: Thoughts on the Mural' with a manuscript sketch at the bottom of the page
        -typescript documentitled 'Allegory MK: Architecture defeated; architecture triumphant'.
        -manuscript quotations
        -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the personification of architecture
        -pencil sketches on tracing paper of doors, with photocopies
        -incomplete typescript document titled 'The Thematic House: Charles Jencks'
        -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the symbolism of the seasons
        -typescript and manuscript notes titled 'Future Pavilion' with aphorisms about the future
        -photocopy typescript article titled 'The Thematic House (A brief Summary); Charles Jencks'.
        -typescript letter from Mark Girouard sending captions [not included] and returning the slides and transparencies
        -typescript notes on Autumn, Aphrodite, Artemis and Spring
        -horoscopes from Vogue June 1972
        -typescript notes titled 'Thoughts on Reading E.H. Gombrich 'The Museum: Past, Present and Future' in Ideals and Idols, Phaidon, Oxford 1979'
        -pencil and ink sketch frieze designs
        -colour polaroid photograph of the Bathpool
        -receipt from Harriet Wynter Ltd for an Orrery and colour reproduction labelled 'This is the ceiling of the famous planetarium built by Eise Eisinga'
        -letter from D McNally at the University of London regarding the entrance ellipse and returning Charles' program (attached) and regarding introductions to Sir Fred Hoyle
        -pencil lettering designs
        -typescript notes titled 'Museum of Cultural History'
        -private view card for 'Ornament and Decoration: Architectural Drawings by Arthur Brown Jr and Bakewell & Brown' at Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, with manuscript annotations
        -colour polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval

        -CJA-TCH-a-38 · File · 1983-1984
        Part of Charles Jencks Archive

        Correspondence between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Charles relating to designs for the Time Garden, and plans for the garden.

        The correspondence includes discussion of Albert Speer, a list of cities to be represented in the Roman Fragments and news from Hamilton Finlay about forthcoming work and exhibitions. Sketches of the garden in pencil and ink with a list of conceptual themes; a typescript list titled 'Cultural time' with manuscript annotations and program for the Foursquare Room.