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George House: Exterior staircase ballustrade with ornament
1998Exterior staircase solid wall made out of concrete blocks with precat concrete ballustrade with ornamental cut-outs.
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George House - Exterior staircase ballustrade with ornament: Photographs
01/01/1998
View of the exterior staircase and its ballustrade.
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George House - Exterior staircase ballustrade with ornament: Photograph of ornament mock-up
01/01/1998
Photograph of a mock-up of the prefabricated concrete segment for the ballustrade of the staircase, testing concrete segments with cut-outs, forming a simple sequence of ornamental voids. .
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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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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
2002
“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...
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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 ...