Ancient Color and Geometry – Anatolian Pile Carpets from the Christopher Alexander Collection: Introductory boards installed in the exhibit

10/11/1990

Visual, Exhibition Board

Eighteen small boards analyzing the dating of the carpets and the context in which they were made, as well as, the geometrical aspects and structure of their designs in relation to wholeness and applications to the 21st century architecture.

Visual & Audio Material:

1) Board with 'A Personal Thank you Note'
2) Board on 'The Emergence of a Being'
3) Board on 'The Original Creature'
4) Board on 'Objective Wholeness - The Mirror of the Self'
5) Board on 'Color and Light'
6) Board on 'Color'
7) Board on 'Centers - The Building Blocks of Wholeness'
8) Board on 'The Hierarchy of Centers'
9) Board on 'Negative and Positive Space'
10) Board on 'The Density of Local Symmetries in a Lotto Carpet'
11) Board on 'A Note on the Dating of the Carpets'
12) Board on 'Dating and Progression of Early Carpets I'
13) Board on 'Dating and Progression of Early Carpets II'
14) Board on 'Mevlana - The Sufi Saint of Konya'
15) Board on '21st-Century Architecture I'
16) Board on '21st-Century Architecture II'
17) Board on 'Microstructure I'
18) Board on 'Microstructure II'

Content of

Public Event 1 Items

"Ancient Color and Geometry: Anatolian Pile Carpets from the Christopher Alexander Collection" exhibition in M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco 10/11/1990 to 17/02/1991

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Exhibition

The exhibition of the Christopher Alexander collection of 80 Turkish carpets in the de Young Memorial Museum was held during the 6th International Conference on Oriental Carpets. Alexander designed the exhibit in all its detailing personally with one thing in ...