Potash-McCabe House: Hand-painted farm-house kitchen

Complete reconstruction of existing house, with emphasis on the house kitchen. Hand painted interiors, hand-plaster work, furniture, and garden terraces; benches, seats, table, fireplace and floor of kitchen --all built and painted by C.E.S. Total construction 2,500 square feet.

Three photographs from the mock-ups prepared for testing colors until they reached their right balance and harmony, before the kitchen was painted.

Six photographs of particular corners and details of the kitchen, where the color harmony has been attained. Three of them were exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet #2. One ...

Four photographs from the mock-ups prepared for testing colors until they reached their right balance and harmony, before the kitchen was painted.

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 ...

“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, ...