The Campus of Eishin – High SchooI: Music School and the lake – Photographs of the building

01/01/1986

Exterior View

The small Music School attached to the Great Hall, which lies right in the background, both at the edge of the lake.
The photo was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

Eishin Campus - High School: Music School 1982 to 1985

Nihongi 112-1, Iruma-shi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Educational, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

Client:

Higashino High School - Hisae Hosoi, Managing Director

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hans-Joachim Neis, Gary Black, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King

Contractor:

Fujita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Construction Drawings done after layout Construction management along with on-site design decisions

A small one-story building attached to the Great Hall, with its entrace set back from the main square. Its back side forms part of the lake edge.

References

Public Events

14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: "Office US" 07/06/2014 to 23/11/2014

U.S. Pavillion in Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Maggie Moore, Artemis Anninou, Lily Alexander

Organized by:

La Biennale di Venezia

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 ...

Photographs

The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Music School - Photographs of the building 01/01/1986

Project, Exterior View

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Iruma-shi, Saitama, Japan

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Two views of the Music School attached to the Great Hall, in the first stepped back, facing the main square, and in the second facing the lake; they show how a small simple volume, attached to a large simple volume, ...