Chapter 19. Color Which Unfolds from the Configuration, 1 / The Unfolding which Produces Inner Light

“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, ...

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

Exterior walls painted yellow with some white and a touch of orange to light the orange of the canopy; hand-painted interior walls in green, apricot, yellow, red and green, with ornamental frieze and white flowers on the walls painted by ...

Christopher Alexander started to work on the color of the building from the early stages of its construction, when the concrete formwork was completed. He started mixing and testing different blues on the Martinez site to get the right wall ...