Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja house window detail

Design and construction of a family house for Geoffrey and Linda Gioja, with an area of 2.100 square feet.

Image of the mock-up for the dining room bay window, overlooking the lake, built in its actual opening, for testing the bay window subdivisions and moldings.

Three images of the dining room bay window, overlooking lake Travis, with its fine geometry created by the different levels of scale of the window members and its subdivisions.

Image of the dining room bay window, as viewed from outside.

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 ...

“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, ...