Photographs of Christopher Alexander’s sketches of the fifteen geometric properties

01/01/1990

Sketches

Photographs of Christopher Alexander’s original sketches of the fifteen fundamental geometric properties, with different versions for each one, all drawn on ten pages.
They were exhibited at the Lotus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2.

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Contents

Photographs

SEE ALL Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

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 ...

Public Events

Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing Society´s Transitions" 21/05/2014 to 06/10/2014

The Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

LOCUS Foundation & Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine - Marie-Hélène Contal, Curator

The 40 architects already awarded the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture participated and exhibited their works. The exhibition was on international touring until 2016. Christopher Alexander’s participation included the extensive presentation of the Mexicali project in the “Saving the People’s Habitat” ...

Photographs

Locus Manifesto-exposition "Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions": Photographs of exhibition 01/04/2014

Public Event, Exhibited Artwork

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Selection of thirteen photographs and objects, prepared specifically for this exhibit, to illustrate the manifestation of the fifteen fundamental geometric properties in nature, as formulated by Christopher Alexander; objects and photographs were exhibited in Science Cabinet 2 .