Chapter 18. Ornament as Part of all Unfolding, 3 / Black-and-White Marble Floors and Surfaces

“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, ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

The first experiment for a marble-dust floor that Christopher Alexander had conducted.

Hand-made ornamental terrazzo panels with animal figures on the vertical surfaces of an outdoor bench.