Berryessa Terraced House: Multicolored blue diamond shaped tiles

Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...

Three images of thirty two-tiles glazed and fired in the C.E.S. tile workshop, shown in different combinations, before they were attached to the formwork of the foundation perimeter wall, to be embedded on the face of the concrete.

Two photographs depicting sections of the foundation perimeter walls with the tiles embedded in the concrete.

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...