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Winter 1980Graduate seminar on the anaysis of the structure of geometric patterns and the rules for color distribution on them.
Contents
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Arch. 207, Winter 1980 - Seminar class on Geometry and Color: Sketches on Japanese Kimono motifs
01/03/1980
Analysis of the structure of the patterns and the arrangement of the colors on the motifs.
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Arch. 207, Winter 1980 - Seminar class on Geometry and Color: Preliminary State of Discussing the Color Problematic of the "Nameless Quality"
01/01/1980
38-page paper on “An attempt to discuss the possibility of establishing properties, rules and process-algorithms for the color problematic of the nameless quality”: 1. Introductory Remarks; 2. The Phenomenon; 3. The Color Problem in General; 4. An Approach to Establish ...
References
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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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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book One - The Phenomenon of Life
2002
“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...