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institute:eishin-school-campusEishin School Campus
A school campus near Tokyo whose design and life illustrate the principles of living process in gardens.
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Institutes (3)
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- Eishin Campus (school and college, Japan)related_tosame_asThe school and college near Tokyo built 1985-89, whose head was later called 'the mayor' because of the living atmosphere.
- Eishin Gakuen (Eishin campus)related_toThe school in Japan that sought a new culture and worked with Alexander to create its campus
- The campus where the Great Hall, classrooms, and library were built; site of the examples in this chapter.
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- The chapter from which all other entities are extracted; it explains how living process, applied repeatedly in exterior space, generates the distinct morphology of gardens.
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- Closing line of Hosoi's letter, capturing the aliveness achieved by the Eishin lake.
Related by similarity (8)
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- The main building of the Eishin campus, Japan, serving as primary example of a building as a living center made of beings.
- School in Tokyo for which Alexander designed a campus.
- The central pedestrian skeleton of hulls at the Eishin Campus — streets, lake, bridge — that forms the core connecting all buildings.
- Example of 'do the simplest thing': the simplest candelabra design that met the need, contrasting with the contractor's overly complex fixture.
- Alexander's strongest statement about the generative power of a pattern language list
- Strongest case study evidence for the claim that the list of centers alone defines the life of a building
- 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.