Chapter 18. Ornament as Part of all Unfolding, 5 / Other Kinds of Ornament

“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, ...

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 ...

Ornamental concrete layers, both vertical and horizontal, painted white, in contrast to the blue of the wall large surfaces. The vertical concrete layers were incorporated in the formwork of columns and shear walls, while the horizontal concrete layers were shot ...

Cast concrete ornaments on the wall frieze of the Homeroom buildings.

Floor constructed of varnished pine blocks in a variety of patterns. Two different paterns were initially built for the Sweet Potatoes floors, and then developed as an office space element for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, with ornamental qualities.