Article

A New Way of Looking

01/04/1991

Article

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Published in:

HALI: The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art, No. 56, pp. 114-125

Publisher:

HALI Publications Ltd. , London, U.K.

Contents

Correspondence

"A New Way of Looking" article: Plea to continue with a previously agreed upon cost of $1000 for photographer Mark Darley to take the photo shoot of the carpet exhibit. A brief education of industry standard for architectural photographs and ownership 09/12/1990

Article Publication

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Alan Marcuson, Ian Bennett, Dan Schaffer, Hali Publications Ltd., London, U.K.

Medium:

Letter
"A New Way of Looking" article: Notification about Alexander's forthcoming article in Hali Publications regarding his book "A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets"; article summary and publication dates included 05/02/1991

Article Publication, Notification

Sender:

Marian Wattman Oshima, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Joyce Berry, Oxford University Press Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
"A New Way of Looking" article: Request to Hali Publications that a few changes be made in the statement which appears at the end of Alexander's article 05/02/1991

Article Publication, Request for Corrections

Sender:

Marian Wattman Oshima, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Ian Bennett, Hali Publications Ltd., London, U.K.

Medium:

Letter

References

Works 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 ...

Public Events

"Ancient Color and Geometry: Anatolian Pile Carpets from the Christopher Alexander Collection" exhibition in M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco 10/11/1990 to 17/02/1991

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Bob Theis, Annie der Bedrossian

Organized by:

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and The Center for Environmental Structure

The exhibition of the Christopher Alexander collection of 80 Turkish carpets in the de Young Memorial Museum was held during the 6th International Conference on Oriental Carpets. Alexander designed the exhibit in all its detailing personally with one thing in ...