Go BackC.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses; paper mock-up #4
01/01/1984Full-scale paper mock-up with gouache paint, depicting the fourth alternative for the terrazzo floor of the main room — a geometric pattern composed by interlaced red and yellow crosses with a small blue square detail inside the red crosses. Same pattern with the third alternative, but of larger size elements.
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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
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 ...
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
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 ...
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses - Photographs
01/01/1984
Close-up photo of the floor pattern in main room floor.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses - Photographs of mock-ups
01/01/1984
Five photographs of the watercolor mock-ups by Christopher Alexander, illustrating the four alternative designs for the terrazzo floor of the main room.