Civic Center & Town Hall for Mountain View: Main Courtyard – Color markers & gouache paints

01/01/1986

Gouache Painting, Colored Pen Painting, Perspective

Two early color studies of the main plaza area. One study is realized on paper using color markers and the other, on a photocopied sketch of the interior plaza perspective view painted with gouache paints .

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

30"x40", 12 1/2"x10 1/4

Content of

Work of Art

Painting of the main courtyard for the "Mountain View Civic Center" competition entry 1986

Personal Work of Art, Painting

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Pen, ink and gouache final painting for the main interior courtyard of the Mountain View Civic Center, prepared for the invited design competition. The dominant feature of the painting is the frieze of the blue ceramic bas-relief horses around the ...

Contents

Drawings

References

Scientific Research

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...

Drawings