Book Chapter

Chapter 13. The Character of Rooms, 6 / The Main Centers of the Carpet Gallery at the San Francisco Museum

Book title:

The Nature of Order – An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three – A Vision of a Living World

Pages:

425-427

Content of

Book

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Three - A Vision of a Living World 2005

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

No of pages:

697 pp

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

References

Scientific Research

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

Projects

Exhibition Galleries: Ancient Color and Geometry, De Young Museum 1990

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Other, Realized , Construction completed in Oct-1990

Client:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum - Mr. Harry Parker III

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Bob Theis, Annie der Bedrossian

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$7,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Preliminary Design drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions.

Four gallery reconstruction and installation in the De Young Museum, San Francisco, including interior construction, color, lighting, and installation and hanging of the carpets.