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Alexander's assessment of the Eishin campus.
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- Validation of the importance of the water feature.
- Behavioral evidence of attachment: students felt so at home they resisted leaving, reversing the earlier pattern of early departures.
- Eishin students made a film showing themselves jumping joyfully into the campus lake, fully clothed.finding0.766Artifact expressing a hymn to freedom and the realization of a dream.
- Alexander's strongest statement about the generative power of a pattern language list
- Shows the integration of structural necessity (seismic diaphragm) with geometric order
- Eishin teachers initially described wanting to walk by a stream, pond, or lake in their ideal school.finding0.745Initial desires that informed the inclusion of the lake.
- The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
- Example of 'do the simplest thing': the simplest candelabra design that met the need, contrasting with the contractor's overly complex fixture.