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The Morphology of Living Architecture, 4 / Centers and Symmetries
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...
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Linz Café
1980
Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless
1986 to
1990
Design and construction of a shelter for homeless people, to serve 50 to 100 people, on a site of 13,000 sf. The building of 15,000 square feet includes offices, living areas with a dining hall, sleeping rooms, courtyards and gardens. ...
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West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center
1994 to
1996
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 ...
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Column capitals with ornamental details
1987
Hand-made cast-concrete column capitals with ornamental details, his mouth being the water flow hole.
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with lion's head
1988
Cast-concrete lion's head on the back wall of the tiled fountain located in the courtyard of the Julian Street Inn.
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Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework
1988
Tilework with diagonal squared pattern with four-petal flower in interchanging green and salmon, cladding the base wall of the fountain.