The Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall interior plasterwork in color – Photographs

Black, red, grey, purple and pale green interior plasterwork to cover 40.000 sq. ft of hand etched plasterwork for columns and beams, screen, walls and ceilings for the interior of the Great Hall.

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

Christopher Alexander formulated this principle as follows: In any living process, or any process of design or making, the way forward, the next step which is most structure-enhancing, is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole. "Feeling" ...

A large ceremonial building located at the main square and forming one edge of the lake. The main bridge that crosses the lake starts next to its massive podium. Its floor area is 14,000 square feet and has a three-story ...

The plaster work of the columns is polished black shikkui, an ancient Japanese technique, embellished with chevrons carried out in red plaster and a floral frieze in white and grey highlights. The surface of the plaster was hand-polished some thirty ...