Go BackC.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Main Room with fireplace, terrazzo floor and lounge table – Photographs
01/01/1985Three versions of a photograph of the main room of the building, with different exposures.
One of them was exhibited during the 10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture in 1992, where Christopher Alexander was invited to give a lecture, as well as at the 1989 Fitzwilliam Museum photograph exhibition “Forms Which do not Frighten but Invite”.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Fireplace
1981
Count Rumford all concrete fireplace, has a flat and broad fire chamber, a very wide opening and a curved fire back; the flatness results form the exceptionally narrow hearth, which is the cause for the high heat effectiveness.
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C.E.S. Office - Martinez House: Terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses
1984
Red, yellow and blue polished terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses made on a 400 sq. ft of a living room; with styrofoam lost form technique.
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10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture
28/04/1992
Since 1983, the annual Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award + Talk has been Philadelphia’s signature event honoring an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of architecture. The event celebrates these achievements in memory of the storied career of Philadelphia ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum Photograph Exhibition "Forms Which do not Frighten but Invite"
24/06/1989 to
06/08/1989
The exhibit was conceived and arranged by members of the staff of the Depatment of Architecture at Cambridge, for celebrating and commemorating the fifty years association of Sandy Wilson with the University of Cambridge, Depatment of Architecture, thirty three of ...