Go BackTimurid-Carpet pattern, painting
1990Painting on photographic paper with red and yellow gouach; 20cm x 26cm, depicts a reconstruction of a 13th century carpet. Two illuminated negatives of the painting were exhibited in the De Young Memorial Museum "Ancient Color and Geometry: Very early carpets of the Christopher Alexander Collection" exhibit.
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"Timurid Carpet Pattern" painting: Photographs
01/01/1990
Photograph of the gouache painting “Timurid Carpet Pattern” on celluloid. It was exhibited at the De Young Carpet Exhibition, and at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2.
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Byzantine-Timurid Prototype: Photographs
01/01/1993
Three photographs, one color photo of the whole carpet, and one in black and white of a carpet detail with a duplicate of inverted contrast.
References
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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
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 ...
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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
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A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art - The Color and Geometry of very Early Turkish Carpets
1993
The seventh volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is a book about carpets. Alexander assembled what many believe to be one of the finest collections of early Turkish carpets in the ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...