Go BackByzantine-Timurid Prototype: Photographs
01/01/1993Three photographs, one color photo of the whole carpet, and one in black and white of a carpet detail with a duplicate of inverted contrast.
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Timurid-Carpet pattern, painting
1990
Painting on photographic paper with red and yellow gouach; 20cm x 26cm, depicts a reconstruction of a 13th century carpet. Two illuminated negatives of the painting were exhibited in the De Young Memorial Museum "Ancient Color and Geometry: Very early ...
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Byzantine-Timurid prototype
13th to 16th century, reconstructed rug fragment, 114cm x 195cm, Istanbul; bought in 1983 and sold on 2018, at Sotheby’s auction.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Wholeness and the Theory 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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Carpet pattern drawing to be used on tile production
01/01/1985
Design inspired by old Turkish carpet; intended for the production of tiles for a fireplace.
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Timurid carpet pattern painting: Sketches with color
01/01/1990
Three color studies of the Timurid carpet pattern, one using black ink and two using color markers, together with the free-hand sketch used for the color studies.