Chapter 19. Color Which Unfolds from the Configuration, 5 / The Blue of the Kaiser House

“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, ...

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 ...

The choice of the color for the Kaiser house was a long process; the chosen color was a deep intense blue with a touch of green in it.