Drawing

Series of drinking glasses for Dutch Glassworks – Profile of wooden mock-up: Sketches

01/01/1997

Sketches, Section

Three pages, each one depicting the schematic profile for each different size of drinking glass designed. .

Designers:

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

Medium:

Original on Paper

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 ...