New City Center for Samarkand: Photographs of model

01/04/1993

Model

Photograph of the rough study model, focusing on just a section of it

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

References

Scientific Research 5 Items

The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
Designing with Patterns and Generic Rules for Making Centers

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Pattern languages consist of a multitude of patterns which reflect and define a way of life, people's inner feelings and aspirations, they relate to culture, to climate and to the actual place, and they are rooted in observation. During the pattern ...
Project Specific Pattern Languages - Specificity and Generality of Pattern Languages

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Pattern Languages in Practice

A shared pattern language in a project acts as the generic system which gives the power to the smaller local acts to form a whole. Within the process of making a project, every individual act of building differentiates space. However, ...
Wholeness and the Theory of Centers

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...

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Photographs 1 Items

House and Spiritual Retreat for Mary LaMar: Photographs of existing structures on the site 01/08/1993

Project, Site Existing Conditions

Photographer:

Michael Price, Mary LaMar, Rhinelander, WI, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Negative

Characteristics:

4"x6", 35mm, Color

Two images depict existing access paths from the lake to the cottage; looking south. .