Work of Art

Very Early Small Pattern Holbein

Carpet Collection

14th century carpet fragment, 117cm x 128cm, Western Anatolia; sold on 1998, at Christies.

Content of

Work of Art

Christopher Alexander's carpet collection, at its final state included about 80 carpets, most of them Turkish carpets, or carpets with a pronounced "Turkic" character

Carpet Collection

Christopher Alexander started collecting carpets because of his desire to learn from them. He felt that they had something to teach him. He was never interested in the classification of carpets, where they came from, or on their type. He ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

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 ...

Books

A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art - The Color and Geometry of very Early Turkish Carpets 1993

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

No of pages:

351 pp

The seventh volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is a book about carpets. Alexander assembled what many believe to be one of the finest collections of early Turkish carpets in the ...