Alhambra tile fragment in the Alexander collection

Art Collection, Hand-made Tilework

Tile fragment from Alhambra purchased by Christopher Alexander in the early 1980s for its beauty of geometry and color, and for advancing his research on Geometry and its Fundamental Properties.

Contents

Photographs

Alhambra Tile Fragment: Photographs of the tile fragment and related sketches 01/01/1984

Sketches

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Three photographs, one of the tile fragment and two of the sketches made by Christopher Alexander, presenting the gradual formation of centers by increasing the degree of life in them. They were exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture ...

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 ...