Drawing

Alcove fronts for the Linz Café project: Sketches

01/01/1980

Sketches

Watercolor and pencil sketches of the alcove front wall in two pages. .

Drawing:

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Linz, Austria

Medium:

Original on Paper

Content of

Work of Art 1 Items

Color sketch of the alcove fronts for the Linz Café project 1980

Personal Work of Art, Painting

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Gouache on wood panel, 5"x5"; it was used on the front jacket of "The Linz Café" book.

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

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 ...

Drawings 1 Items

Alcove fronts for the Linz Café project: Sketches 01/01/1980

Work of Art, Sketches

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Linz, Austria

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

3 1/4"x3 3/4"

Digitized

Blue and white geometrical pattern, an alternative pattern for the interior wall coloring .

Photographs 1 Items

The Linz Café: Alcove front - Photograph 01/01/1980

Work of Art, Gouache Painting

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Digitized

Photograph of Christopher Alexander’s gouache painting of the café alcove on wooden panel.