Music Cabinet

Five pages of early sketches of the music cabinet, including perspective pencil drawings and sections; some with dimensions and notes.

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

Two photographs of the blue painted wooden music cabinet for Pamela Alexander, the first as soon as its making was completed and the second when in use.

Five photographs of Christopher Alexander sketches for the music cabinet, with notes on getting dimensions right.

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" ...

“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 ...