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Shifting Patterns – Christopher Alexander und der Eishin Campus

01/01/2017
Original Book
Shifting Patterns - Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus

“Shifting Patterns”, written in German, is the first book to examine Alexander’s theory of ‘systems generating systems’ and its application to a building design. It takes the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1983 and 1989, as its example. It brings together essays from an interdisciplinary, international cast of experts, to investigate the application of this theory to the school and university complex, the largest project Alexander has realised based on pattern language. The essays also look at the design-build movement as an antithesis to today’s standardised and commerce-driven architectural production.

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
Title translation:
Shifting Patterns - Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus
Publisher:
Diachron, Gratz, Austria
Park Books, Zurich, Switzerland
Language:
German
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