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1982 to 1985The administration building is located on the main suare, opposite from the Great Hall. It is a masonry building with an intricate ornamental lattice-like pattern on its second floor exterior wall. Within its 5,430 square feet floor area, it includes an arched passage way that connects the main square with a pedestrian alley. .
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Photographs of the pedestrian network of the campus and the main square
2 2) Part of the main square and the entrance street behind, marked by the two gates
01/05/1985
Two views of the main square,next to the water’s edge. The first photo was exhibited at the 14th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition: “Office US”.
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Main Gate and Administration building - Photographs of the buildings
01/05/1985
The main gate and the administration building, almost perpendicular to each other, viewed from the main square .
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The Campus of Eishin - High SchooI: Administration Building - Photographs
01/05/1985
The administration building, situated at the main square of the campus, is characterized by its arched opening that leads to a pedestrian alley, and by its corner store. Its second storey wall is a trellis of fine concrete splines. The photo ...
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Geometry and Fifteen Fundamental Properties
Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Three - A Vision of a Living World
2005
“A Vision of a Living World”, the third volume of “The Nature of Order” series, presents, for the first time, a full spectrum of Alexander’s and CES built and unbuilt works. The book describes hundreds of buildings, plans, neighborhoods, drawings, ...
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The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth - A Struggle between Two World-Systems
2012
The ninth and last volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is the “The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth – A Struggle between Two World-Systems”. The book puts ...
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Battle: The History of a Crucial Clash between World-System A and World-System B - Construction of the New Eishin Campus
01/08/1985
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盆進学園東野高等学校 / Eishin Gakuen - Higashino High School Iruma City
01/06/1985
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Das Machen von Gebäuden: Eishin College - Eishin High School bei Tokio / The Making of Buildings: Eishin College - Eishin High School at Tokyo
01/02/1986
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Administration building exterior wall with οrnament - Photographs
01/01/1984
Four images showing the construction process of the concrete diagonal lattice on the second storey wall, using styrofoam formwork.
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The Campus of Eishin- High School: Administration building exterior wall with οrnament - Photographs
01/05/1985
Two images of the second storey wall viewing the trellis of fine concrete splines, with the spaces between the splines plastered in white.