“View of Mountain View Civic Center” painting: Photographs

Pen, ink and gouache final painting for the main interior courtyard of the Mountain View Civic Center, prepared for the invited design competition. The dominant feature of the painting is the frieze of the blue ceramic bas-relief horses around the ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...

Four views of the watercolor painting, showing the main courtyard of the Civic Center, submitted with the design competition entry package; one of them is a close-up view.

The watercolor painting of the main plaza in a cropped view.

Early study, a painted version of the main Plaza, in black and white ink .