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            9 Archival description results for Venice Biennale

            Free-Style Classicism
            CJA-RES-AL-B13-6-45 · Item · 1982
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Guest-Edited by Charles, includes an article titled 'Counter-Reformation - a religious parable. Charles Jencks' reflections on the Venice Biennale' and 'Venice Biennale: Discussion: Charles Jencks, Paolo Portoghesi, Michael Graves, Eugene Kupper, Fernando Montes et al'

            Publisher: Academy Editions

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            Biennale 2004
            CJA-RES-AL-DL-21-2 · File · 2004
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Yellow plastic box containing slides annotated 'Biennale 2004', in green ink.
            CJA-TCH-a-2 · File · 1978-1983
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Farrell-Jencks Letters 1978-1983'.

            The file comprises letters between Maggie and Charles, Terry Farrell and staff at the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership and Terry Farrell Partnership. Letters from Terry Farrell and his firm form the majority of the file; there are also some copy letters from Maggie and Charles, as well as photocopied correspondence from other parties, notes taken at meetings (manuscript and typescript) and a few draft designs. Many of the letters received from Terry Farrell/Terry Farrell Partnership have been annotated or have sketches on the reverse.

            Topics covered include:
            -programme of work
            -builders and tradesmen
            -fees and costs of work
            -solar tempering
            -planning consent
            -program of work
            -insurance
            -reaction of neighbours to the designs and work
            -cost/progress reports
            -Venice Biennale
            -request from Farrell for a name for the house
            -credit for the designs
            -problems arising due to working methods
            -Charles' role as architect and client
            -proposals for completion of works

            Includes pages torn from Sunday Times Magazine 16 January 1983 with an article on Terry Farrell by Deyan Sudjic including discussion of the unfinished Jencks's house; photocopies of an Astragal piece in the AJ 19 May 1982 regarding the building work on 19 Lansdowne Walk and subsequent correspondence; incomplete manuscript notes (headed 3 and 4) regarding credit for the designs for the house.

            1980 Venice Biennale
            CJA-VBE · Sub-Fonds · 1980
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Documents relating to Charles involvement in the first Venice Architecture Biennale, held in 1980 in the Corderie dell'Arsenale.
            Freestyle + 1980 Biennale
            CJA-VBE-1 · File
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Contents of a folder labelled 'Freestyle + 1980 Biennale'. Consists predominantly of loose photographs, some marked up for publication or labelled with details for AD1/2 82. There are also 6 loose colour transparencies mounted in plastic frames.
            Biennale original documents
            CJA-VBE-2 · File
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive
            Contents of a folder labelled 'Biennale original documents - Biennale 1980'
            Includes three slides boxes as well as:
            -colour transparency strip
            -leaflet titled 'Prima, Mostra Internazionale di Architettura' [bilingual Italian/English)
            -pencil drawings and diagrams
            -ink and coloured pencil drawing attached to foamboard showing a pencil and a book labelled ‘all the wasms have become isms’
            -room layout sketch with explanation
            -La Biennale di Venezia headed paper
            -press cuttings
            -typescript reproduced pamphlet titled ‘Post-Modern Architecture’ with a text by Charles and lists of slides. Multiple versions with corrections, annotations and alterations to the slides list
            -copy manuscript letter to 'Pete’' regarding his symposium at the Venice Biennale
            -photocopied typescript documents from the Architecture Department, La Biennale di Venezia, including lists of names of architects with manuscript annotations
            -manuscript notes
            -photocopied manuscript lists of names with Charles’ annotations
            -photocopied typescript document headed ‘Giuseppe Galasso’ regarding the role of Architecture in the Biennale
            -photocopied plans, some with manuscript annotations
            -correspondence with the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco requesting a set of the slides, with Charles’ annotations regarding reply, and typescript copy reply
            -manuscript notes of architects names under categories; one page headed USA
            -photocopy of the Evolutionary Tree
            -manuscript letter from 'Kitty & Ned' enclosing an article from New York
            -topographic plan of Milan from Domus 506, gennaio 1972
            -photocopied sketches
            -typescript document titled 'Program of the Façade in the Venice Biennale/Programma Relativo alla Facciata Nella Mostra Della Biennale'
            -typescript titled ‘The Counter-Reformation in Architecture: Reflections on the 1980 Venice Biennale’ by Charles with manuscript annotations
            -photocopied 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
            -typescript letter from Paolo Portoghesi with further details about the Biennale, an Italian translation of Charles’ book and sending photos of the Mosque.
            -manuscript notes of architects names under categories; page headed Japan
            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