Protographs of Christopher Alexander’s sequence of three dooddles which illustrates the process on creating centers.

01/01/1978
Sketches

Christopher Alexander referred to it as a “playful and simple way of following the fundamental process, which says that at each step, strong centers are to be created, step by step, in space”.
The five steps of the third and final doodle gave the individual centers more force and united the whole fabric together, by putting a diamond inside each figure, and by shading the figures grey and leaving the diamonds white.

Photographer:
Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Source:
Digital
Characteristics:
B&W