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Eishin Campus – High School
1982 to 1995The High School is the part of the Eishin Campus that was constructed, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters. It is a complex of thirty-five buildings, with pedestrian colonnaded streets, gates and gardens, and a lake with pedestrian bridges. The first and largest part of it was completed in 1985; the second part of it was completed in 1987 with the construction of the two College buildings. The landscaping and hardscape works were fully completed in 1989. One more small building was added in 1995.
The main building of the High School are the following: Central Hall, two College Buildings, Science Building, Arts Building, nine Homebase Buildings, Administration Building, Hall of Faculty Offices, Small Gate, Main Gate, Great Hall, Music School, Gymnasium, Dining Hall and Judo Hall.
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Eishin Campus - High School: Expressing his impressions after studying a project report analyzing the nature of the project and the approach to follow for succeeding in it, and laying out some personal concerns on the financial aspects of it
01/01/1983
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Eishin Campus - High School: Addressed to Mr. Hosoi, expressing complaints about unexpected and harsh behavior regarding Taishei's threats. Further comments are provided about how Center for Environmental Structure feels about the behavior, the relationship and quality of the work anticipated
01/01/1984
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Eishin Campus - High School: Explanation of structural design bill, with confirmation signature by Hisae Hosoi
07/05/1984
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New Eishin University: Flying Over Higashino
01/01/1986
Movie on the design and construction process of the project, showing its development and the interplay between design and construction; documentation focused on specific buildings as well.
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Exhibition Inax: School Building Exhibition
09/09/1988
Post card advertising a photography exhibition of school architecture in Tokyo, described as: “The adventure story of school architecture, where a school is born is search of a more free space”. .
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New Eishin University: Progress report
20/02/1983
Progress report describing the fundamental design and construction principles, as well as the early works that took place in laying out the site. It includes the following eleven sections: 1. Design philosophy; 2. Memorandum on construction method and management; 3. ...
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New Eishin University: Memorandum of Agreement (A) & Memorandum of Agreement (B)
2 2) Memorandum B
16/08/1984
Two 5-page signed memoranda. Memorandum (A) declares the Center for Environmental Structure as participant constructor, in cooperation with the Fujita Kogyo construction company and Mr. Hansjoachim Neis as the C.E.S. representative. Memorandum (B) is an addendum to the original Contract ...
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Eishin Campus - High School: Parents Clubhouse: Design Agreement
15/02/1996
5-page signed design agreement between Eishin Higashino Gakuen and the Center for Environmental Structure to design a two-story Parents Clubhouse to include a main room and kitchenette downstairs, and three small meeting rooms, a common lobby and a bathroom upstairs.
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New Eishin University: Arbitration Agreement
01/09/1981
General form used for requesting arbitration in relation to construction work disputes. It includes general information on the conditions of arbitration. Document contains the English translation of its contents as well.
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New Eishin University: Record of Eishin Expenses
01/01/1983
Handwritten notes on varying personnel expenses and telephone estimates.
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New Eishin University: Bill
02/05/1984
Bill to be paid for drawings, building permit, management of civil works and engineering .
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and a sketch of a possible layout for a campus community - Photographs of drawings
01/10/1982
Sketch made by Mr. Hagiwara, a faculty member, showing his understanding of a possible layout for a campus community, one that would include the general structure and major details, as he understood it from the pattern language for the Eishin ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground - Photographs
01/10/1982
One of the many occasions when Mr. Hisae Hosoi and Christopher Alexander went together to study the project site. The photo was exhibited at the Locus Manifesto-exposition “Re-enchant the World: Architecture and the City facing society´s transitions”, in Science Cabinet 2, ...
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The Campus of Eishin: Laying out the site plan on the ground and the diagrams of the seven most important centers of the pattern language - Photographs of drawings
4 4) Another graphic version of the previous diagram
01/10/1982
Two diagrams, not to scale, in two different graphic vesions each. They show the seven most important centers in the pattern language of the Eishin Campus, which together give a broad conceptual picture of a possible layout that the centers ...
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References
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The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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 ...
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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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The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth - A Struggle between Two World-Systems
2012
The ninth and last volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is the “The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth – A Struggle between Two World-Systems”. The book puts ...
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Entwerfen mit einer Pattern Language - Eishin Schule, Tokyo / Design with a Pattern Language - Eishin School, Tokyo
01/03/1984
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Battle: The History of a Crucial Clash between World-System A and World-System B - Construction of the New Eishin Campus
01/08/1985
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盆進学園東野高等学校 / Eishin Gakuen - Higashino High School Iruma City
01/06/1985
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2nd prize for Best Building in Japan by the Japan Institute of Architects
01/01/1985
The Japan Institute of Architects awarded the 2nd prize for Best Building in Japan in 1985 to the Campus of Eishin .
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Special TV Series "Japan! Where should you go?", Vol. 6 "Discovery at Grass Roots Level"
08/12/1991
Aired in Japan to high acclaim on 6-Dec-1991, the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They had chosen six cases, which they considered the most significant examples of Japanese-American cooperation since World War II. One of the six ...
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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US"
07/06/2014 to
23/11/2014
The American contribution to the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, entitled OfficeUS, looked into the immense built production of American architects abroad. The curators of the US Pavilion chose the Center for Environmental Structure to be among the firms ...
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Lecture on "The Nature of Order", given during Fall 1992
12/11/1992
2-sided cassette tape of the third Fall semester lecture by Christopher Alexander, on “Positive Space”. This lecture goes in more detail into all dimensions of design and focuses on the processes which determine the design development of the structure and ...
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The Center for Environmental Structure: Portfolio of Projects
01/01/1989
Presentation of sixteen projects developed by The Center for Environmental Structure until 1989. 75-page portfolio with Part One “Completed Projects”, Part Two “Current Projects”, concluding with “Additional Projects”. The projects included are: 1) The Linz Cafe, 2) The Sala House, ...
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Opening Address to the Eishin School Opening Ceremony
01/01/1985
Christopher Alexander’s speech written for the Eishin School Opening Ceremony.
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14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition "Office US": C.E.S. response to the curators' request to contribute design materials for the Eishin campus project in Japan
4 4) 3rd attachment with the headings of the seven sections proposed for the organization of the material sent
13/02/2014
Information submitted to the curators of the exhibition.
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New Eishin University: Memorandum about the establishment of a branch of the Center for Environmental Structure in Japan
01/01/1982
Laying out steps and requirements for establishing a branch of the Center for Environmental Structure in Japan for the construction of the project. It is noted that clarity is required.
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