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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• 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 degreeclaim0.770
  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.finding0.746
  Initial desires that informed the inclusion of the lake.
• Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)institute0.733
  The school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
• 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 systemhypothesis0.731
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• After moving to this new Eishin campus, the situation became quite reversed. The early buses were always empty. The last bus of the day was full. It was very difficult to get the students to go home.claim0.727
  Behavioral evidence of attachment: students felt so at home they resisted leaving, reversing the earlier pattern of early departures.
• Eishin School Campusinstitute0.727
  A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.
• Eishininstitute0.724
  School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
• Pattern as Rule for Making Centersconcept0.719
  The precise reformulation: each pattern is a rule describing a type of strong center needed on a recurring basis and the relations among neighboring centers