Seljuk Prayer Carpet: Photographs
01/01/1993Seven photographs, one color of the whole carpet, and another one with emphasis on details; also five black and white photos of sketches depicting carpet details and its overall structure, with emphasis on its field of centers.
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Wholeness and the Theory of Centers
Christoper Alexander defined and described wholeness as an idea to view and shape space, and searched for ways to formulate and represent wholeness in precise terms, as a structure. He idenfied the entities with 'strength' give structure to what is ...