Go BackThe Campus of Eishin- High School: Great Hall interior plasterwork in color – Photographs
01/01/1987The 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 times to reach this lustrous finish.
The photograph was exhibited during the 10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture in 1992, where Christopher Alexander was invited to give a lecture; it was also included in the 1989 Fitzwilliam Museum photograph exhibition “Forms Which do not Frighten but Invite”, and in the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US” in 2014.
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Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process
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 ...
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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
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 ...
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Wholeness and Feeling in Structure-Enhancing Transformations
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" ...
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10th Annual Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture
28/04/1992
Since 1983, the annual Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award + Talk has been Philadelphia’s signature event honoring an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of architecture. The event celebrates these achievements in memory of the storied career of Philadelphia ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum Photograph Exhibition "Forms Which do not Frighten but Invite"
24/06/1989 to
06/08/1989
The exhibit was conceived and arranged by members of the staff of the Depatment of Architecture at Cambridge, for celebrating and commemorating the fifty years association of Sandy Wilson with the University of Cambridge, Depatment of Architecture, thirty three of ...
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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 ...