Drawing

Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks – Drinking glass designs: Sketches

01/01/1997

Sketches, Axonometric, Elevation

Four pages of conceptual sketches depicting various ornamented shapes of drinking glasses. .

Designers:

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

Medium:

Photocopy

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Work of Art 1 Items

Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks 1997

Personal Work of Art, Glasswork

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Katalin Bende, Henk Werveg

Series of drinking glasses commissioned by Stichting Glasmanifestatie at Leerdam in The Netherlands in 1996, following an international glass event focused on the drinking glass.

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

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 ...

Correspondence 1 Items

International Glass Event in Leerdam and Surroundings: Extensive analysis and remarks were sent in response to Alexander's sketches of drinking glass designs and making process. 21/03/1997

Public Event, Event Planning, Request for Feedback

Sender:

Brigitte van der Sande, Stichting Leerdam Glasmanifestatie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Fax

Photographs 1 Items

Drinking handblown glasses for the Royal Dutch Glassworks: Photographs depictng the process of making 01/01/1997

Work of Art, Glassware, Design Process

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Digitized

Five photographs depicting the four stages of the making process for the glasses.