Pasadena Waldorf School: Blue archaic bird

Master plan and building plans for ten buildings, including classrooms, assembly areas, gymnasium, workshops, and gardens; the total floor area of buildings was 24,000 square feet.

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

One photograph of the tile bird, and one photograph of its initial sketch.

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 ...

“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, ...