Series of Drinking Glasses for the Royal Dutch Glassworks: Wooden Prototypes

01/01/2020

Mock-up

Eleven wooden pieces of drinking-glass, representing alternative shaped models for the glasses in various heights, organized in three groups, each one a different shape: Three of group A, three of group B and five of group C.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Katalin Bende, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

3 1/4"x4 5/8", 3 1/4"x5 1/16, 3 1/4"x5 1/4"

Scale:

1'=1'

Content of

Work of Art

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

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 ...

Photographs

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

Five photographs depicting the four stages of making process for the glasses, including the two early sketches, the wooden mock-ups, the early prototype, and the first sample of glasses.