Music Cabinet: Original sketches and description for the making of the music cabinet for Pamela Alexander

01/01/1981

Furniture Making, Notes & Sketches

37-page write up regarding the music cabinet inception along with a description of the construction process followed by numerous original, hand-drawn sketches.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Work of Art

Music Cabinet 1981

Personal Work of Art, Woodworking

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Blue painted wooden cabinet for Pamela Alexander, for her music scores and books.

References

Scientific Research

Wholeness and Feeling in Structure-Enhancing Transformations

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Feeling as the Core of the Process

Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...

Published Books

The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two - The Process of Creating Life 01/01/2002

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

The Center for Environmental Structure Publishing, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

“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 ...