Article

Not Arts and Crafts

01/05/1995

Book Contribution

Authors:

Brian Hanson

Published in:

Educating Architects, pp. 106-109

Editor:

Martin Pearce, Maggie Toy

Publisher:

AD Academy Editions, London, U.K.

References

Published Books

A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art - The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets 01/01/1993

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

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 ...

Projects

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

Client:

Edward James Foundation

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, John Hewitt, students from "The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture", students from Portsmouth University

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure, as Management Contractor and General Contractor of record, with John Hewitt as Project Manager

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions Budget and subcontractors under C.E.S. control Innovativ

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

Public Events

Teaching at the Prince of Wales Summer School in Civil Arcitecture from 1990 to 1995 09/09/1990 to 16/09/1990

Vila Lanta at Bagnaia, Viterbo, Italy

Seminar, Academic Event

Organized by:

HRH The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture

Christopher Alexander was a trustee in the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture and participated in a program to promote the Prince of Wales’ principles of architecture to its students. The program focused on developing the connection between design, construction, ...