Chapter 18. Ornament as Part of all Unfolding, 7 / Making Lifelike Animals and Plants in the Fabric of the Building

“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 ...

Hand-carved horse painted in gouache.

Pen, ink and gouache final painting for the main interior courtyard of the Mountain View Civic Center, prepared for the invited design competition. The dominant feature of the painting is the frieze of the blue ceramic bas-relief horses around the ...

Exterior walls painted yellow with some white and a touch of orange to light the orange of the canopy; hand-painted interior walls in green, apricot, yellow, red and green, with ornamental frieze and white flowers on the walls painted by ...

Shaped tile fragments hand-molded out of clay and glazed, set into red plaster, for insert into wall panel.

Red concrete floor with yellow ceramic leopard inserts for the interior of second Sala House.