Photograph

The Linz Café: Alcove front – Photograph

01/01/1980

Gouache Painting

Photograph of Christopher Alexander’s gouache painting on wooden panel.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Work of Art

Color sketch of the alcove fronts for the Linz Café project 1980

Personal Work of Art, Painting

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Gouache on wood panel, 5"x5"; it was used on the front jacket of "The Linz Café" book.

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

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 ...

Projects

Linz Café 1980

Linz , Austria

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1980

Client:

Forum Design; Österreichisches Institut für Visuelle Gestaltung - Angela Hareiter

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Contractor:

Construction management by the Center for Environmental Structure with local subcontractors

Project cost:

$35.000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...

Drawings

The Linz Café: Sketch of alcove front 01/01/1980

Work of Art, Sketches

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Linz, Austria

Medium:

Original on Paper

Two pages with three watercolor sketches of the alcove front wall and a few pattern fragments.