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First examination of Christopher Alexander’s<br />
“systems generating systems” theory and its<br />
application to a concrete building design<br />
The Eishin Campus near Tokyo is Alexander’s<br />
largest and most significant project based<br />
on the Pattern Language he developed in the<br />
1970s together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray<br />
Silverstein<br />
Christopher Alexander is among the most<br />
highly renowned contemporary architectural<br />
theorists<br />
An intercultural und transdisciplinary<br />
examination<br />
of Christopher Alexander’s<br />
methods for building and<br />
urban design<br />
Christopher Alexander, Vienna-born British-American architect and theorist, is revered<br />
for his writings, such as A Pattern Language, published in 1977 together with Sara<br />
Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, or The Timeless Way of Building of 1979. Lesser known<br />
but as essential to understanding Alexander’s work is his theory of “systems generating<br />
systems,” which explains that “if we wish to make things which function as ‘wholes,’<br />
we shall have to invent generating systems to create them.” (Christopher Alexander).<br />
Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1982 and 1987, as its example,<br />
Shifting Patterns is the first book to examine Alexander’s theory of “systems generating<br />
systems” and its application to a building design. It brings together essays from<br />
a transdisciplinary, international cast of experts to investigate the application of this<br />
theory to a concrete building design. It also looks at the design-build-movement as<br />
an antithesis to today’s standardized and commerce-driven architectural production.<br />
Eva Guttmann is an architecture publicist based<br />
in Graz and Vienna and an editor with <strong>Park</strong><br />
<strong>Books</strong>.<br />
Gabriele Kaiser lives and works in Vienna as an<br />
architecture publicist, writer, and curator.<br />
Claudia Mazanek is a Vienna-based freelance<br />
editor with a special expertise in <strong>20</strong>th-century<br />
art and architecture.<br />
Eva Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Claudia<br />
Mazanek (eds)<br />
Shifting Patterns<br />
Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus<br />
Paperback<br />
192 pages, 133 color and<br />
6 b/w illustrations<br />
<strong>20</strong>.5 × 23.5 cm (8 × 9¼ in)<br />
978-3-03860-149-4 English<br />
978-3-03860-067-1 German<br />
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00<br />
Available<br />
EN<br />
GE<br />
ISBN 978-3-03860-149-4 ISBN 978-3-03860-067-1<br />
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