House for Roger and Karuna Hodgson: New kind of wall construction

2,000 square feet family house on two floors, designed with the participation of the clients. Terraces, out buildings next to the house, and two barns were planned to be included. .

Working on a full scale mock-up for a wall section built with concrete blocks, experimenting with the making of chases for setting in fine lines of white marble .

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 ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

“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, ...