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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House
1992 to 1996Design and construction of a family house for Geoffrey and Linda Gioja, with an area of 2.100 square feet.
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size, built in the porch of the three houses
1994
Timber thick columns and shaped capitals were developed after a series of cardboard mock-ups until size, proportions and shape got right.
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Copper medallions on the exterior walls of the Gioja House
1995
The medallions, about 12" in diameter, are running at the height of the perimeter beam of the first floor; wooden mold has been used for the shaping of the copper.
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja house window detail
1995
Gioja house dining room bay window subdivision and detailing.
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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House: Re: TRACT 3 Lot 3, of Back of the Moon Subdivision. Requesting the signature of the enclosed documents by Christopher Alexander as contractor, their immediate return, and in addition, the provision of a builder's risk policy for all three properties and a copy of the Center for Environmental Structure's corporate resolution
23/05/1994
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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House: Forwarding a memo clarifying references made in a previous draft and updating on the bank progress made; requesting a call back
27/09/1995
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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House: Uniform Residential Appraisal Report
16/09/1993
18-page report providing detailed information including property description, location, maps, pictures, etc. which results in estimating market value and a guide for Federally-related loans.
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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House: Attorney Representation and Fee Letter
23/05/1994
2-page signed agreement that the attorney represents only the lender in the matters required by the loan processes and will prepare all legal instruments and documents necessary. The undersigned understands and accepts all rules set forth in the document including ...
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Neighborhood of Five Houses: Gioja House: Closing Affidavit
25/05/1994
3-page affidavit given to Life Savings Bank, to induce lender to make the disbursement to borrower under the certain and spelled out promissory note; a list of six rules is set forth.
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Neighborhood of Five Houses - Gioja House: Photographs of sketches
01/11/1992
Photographs of two floor plan sketches of the Gioja house; the second one more developed compared to the first.
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Neighborhood of Five Houses - Gioja House: Photographs of drawings
07/04/1994
Photographs of the drawings of the Gioja house; the first depicts the floor plan and the other two the house elevations.
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Neighborhood of Five Houses - Gioja House: Photographs of the building
01/12/1995
Two exterior views of the Gioja house.
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References
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
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 ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“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, ...
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja House window detail - Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1994
Image of the mock-up for the dining room bay window, overlooking the lake, built in its actual opening, for testing the bay window subdivisions and moldings.
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Column capital shape and size used in the porch of the three houses - Photographs
01/11/1995
Two images of the Gioja house porch with the colums and their capitals as built for this house.
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Back-of-the-Moon Community: Gioja House window detail - Photographs
01/11/1995
Three images of the dining room bay window, overlooking lake Travis, with its fine geometry created by the different levels of scale of the window members and its subdivisions.
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