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The 200-pattern language for Eishin school completely defined the life of the school even before any physical configuration or architectural design was determined

Alexander's strongest statement about the generative power of a pattern language list

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Eishin school 1982 pattern language of ~200 centers completely defined the essentials of the school's way of life before any physical design was determined
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Strongest case study evidence for the claim that the list of centers alone defines the life of a building

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The mere list of centers in a pattern language, just from their naming, already conveys a profound atmosphere and defines the life of the place to an enormous degreeclaim0.762
Demonstrated via the Samarkand pattern language list which immediately evokes magical atmosphere
Eishin teachers initially described wanting to walk by a stream, pond, or lake in their ideal school.finding0.756
Initial desires that informed the inclusion of the lake.
The success of the Eishin campus is entirely given by the beauty of the hulls, the public hulls we identified and built.claim0.754
Alexander's assessment of the Eishin campus.
A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.754
Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.743
Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)institute0.741
The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
The pattern language Alexander's team developed for Peru was judged by Peruvians to be a more accurate reflection of Peruvian reality than even the Peruvian architects had managedclaim0.739
Empirical outcome of the Peru empathic immersion method, cited from jurors' report
A well-constructed pattern language has the fifteen properties embedded within it, giving it a driving force that makes geometrical wholeness more easily visible and attainableclaim0.737
Connecting pattern language theory to the fifteen properties framework as its geometric substrate

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Eishin school 1982 pattern language of ~200 centers completely defined the essentials of the school's way of life before any physical design was determined