The Production of Houses: Sketches for book trademark

01/01/1985

Book Artwork

Three original pencil sketches of the book trademark; a close variation of the second one was finally used on the front page of the book jacket. On photocopy of the first one is noted “Art for page 62. Not for jacket.”.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

6 3/8"x8 1/2"

Content of

Published Book

The Production of Houses 01/01/1985

Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Howard Davis, Julio Martinez, Donald Corner

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

The fifth volume in “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “The Production of Houses” puts Alexander’s theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment Alexander ...