George House

Exterior staircase solid wall made out of concrete blocks with precat concrete ballustrade with ornamental cut-outs.

Outdoor room and terrace of the house; the character of this outdoor room has been affected by its position. It arose from the site, a saddle on the hill and the great trees around it, it was a natural point ...

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 ...

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...

“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...

View of the exterior staircase.

Photograph of a mock-up for the ballustrade of the wall staircase wall, testing concrete segments with cut-outs, forming a sequence of ornamental voids .