C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Blue and White Color for Exterior Walls – Sketches

01/01/1984

Sketches

Two watercolor drawings, labeled as “Martinez House End Wall”, are a record of the color used for the exterior walls of the building. Drawings are numbered as 23.681 and 23.682; attached is a note “N/O Original files, Book 3, Chapter 18, on color”.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Blue and white color for exterior walls 1984

Work of Art for Project, Hand-painted Exerior

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 ...

References

Photographs 2 Items

Fort Mason Bench: Photographs of the project during construction 14/04/1984

Project, Exterior View, Works in Progress

Four images of the concrete bench and table, before the commencement of the terrazzo works; first small samples of terrazzo pieces for testing are discerned on the bench back.
C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Blue and white color for exterior walls - Photographs of drawings 01/01/1984

Construction Innovation, Sketches

Three photographs of the two watercolor sketches by Christopher Alexander, showing two alternative color studies of the blue and white colors to be used for the painting of the building.