Description: Shifting Patterns : Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus, Paperback by Guttmann, Eva (EDT); Kaiser, Gabriele (EDT); Mazanek, Claudia (EDT), ISBN 3038601497, ISBN-13 9783038601494, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement, popularized in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, as well as the 1979 follow up, The Timeless Way of Building. Lesser known but as essential to understanding Alexander&;s work is his theory of &;systems generating systems,&; which explains that systems as a whole are created by a &;generating systems,&; and, &;if we wish to make things which function as &;wholes,&; we shall have to invent generating systems to create them.&; 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 an interdisciplinary, international cast of experts, including Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae Hosoi, Christian Kühn, Ida Pristinger, and Norihito Nakatani, as well as conversations with Hajo Neis and Takaharu Tezuka to investigate the application of this theory to the school and university complex, the largest project Alexander has realized based on pattern language. Among the issues discussed are topicality, interdisciplinary and internationality, and culture transfer. The essays also look at the design-build movement as an antithesis to today&;s standardized and commerce-driven architectural production.
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Book Title: Shifting Patterns : Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Shifting Patterns : Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus
Language: English
Publisher: PARK Books
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, General, Individual Architects & Firms / Essays
Type: Textbook
Author: Gabriele Kaiser
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Architecture
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
