Book Chapter

Chapter 15. All Building as Making, 8 / Detailed Shape and Size of Capitals at Back-of-the-Moon

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:

499-501

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

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

Construction Innovations

Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size, built in the porch of the three houses 1994

Building Detail, Column Shaping

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Saul Pichardo, Randall Schmidt

Timber thick columns and shaped capitals were developed after a series of cardboard mock-ups until size, proportions and shape got right.