Pasadena Waldorf School: Plastered concrete on column for the application of ornament

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.

View of an early sketch model for the kindergarten, tiny in scale, joyful and playful, with “ropy” spiral columns to be made in plastered concrete, and a frieze with schematic elephants.

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, ...