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Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks
1997Series of drinking glasses commissioned by Stichting Glasmanifestatie at Leerdam in The Netherlands in 1996, following an international glass event focused on the drinking glass.
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Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks - Profile of wooden mock-up: Sketches
01/01/1997
Three pages, each one depicting the schematic profile for each different size of drinking glass designed. .
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Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks - Drinking glass designs: Sketches
01/01/1997
Four pages of conceptual sketches depicting various ornamented shapes of drinking glasses. .
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Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks: Glass-shop work invoice
12/04/1997
One page handwritten invoice for the work performed by Reilly glazing shop on the glass gobblet mock-up; with added note of the paid amount.
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Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks: Notes
01/01/1997
Five pages including one page containing contact information and types of prefered fruit woods for making molds, and four pages containing photocopy images of glass and wood mock-ups.
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Drinking handblown glasses for the Royal Dutch Glassworks: Photographs depictng the process of making
01/01/1997
Five photographs depicting the four stages of the making process for the glasses.
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Drinking handblown glasses for the Royal Dutch Glassworks: Photographs
01/01/1997
Four photographs focused on individual glasses.
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Drinking handblown glasses for the Royal Dutch Glassworks: Photographs
01/01/1997
Three views of a large group of glasses.
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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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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Wholeness as a Tangible and Objective Quality: The Mirror of the Self
In any process of design or making, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. What ultimately matters in this process is that the work produced generates feeling in ...
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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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...