Shifting Patterns – Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus

01/01/2019

Translation in English

Translation of “Shifting Patterns – Christopher Alexander und der Eishin Campus” in English and its publication in Austria, in 2019.

Editor:

Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Claudia Mazanek

Authors:

Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae Hosoi, Hansjoachim Neis, Christian Kuehn, Ida Pirstinger, Norihito Nakatani, Takaharu Tezuka

Translator:

Brian Dorsey et al.

Publisher:

Diachron, Gratz, Austria
Park Books, Zurich, Switzerland

Language:

English

Content of

Book

Shifting Patterns - Christopher Alexander und der Eishin Campus 2017

Editor:

Eva Guttmann, Gabriel Kaiser, Claudia Mazanek

Authors:

Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae Hosoi, Hansjoachim Neis, Christian Kuehn, Ida Pirstinger, Norihito Nakatani, Takaharu Tezuka

Publisher:

Diachron, Graz, Austria
Park Books, Zurich, Switzerland

No of pages:

192 pp

Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1983 and 1989, as its example, Shifting Patterns is the first book to examine Alexander’s theory of ‘systems generating systems’ and its application to a building design. It brings together essays from ...