Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect
and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement,
popularised in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara
Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, as well as the 1979 follow-up, The
Timeless Way of Building. Lesser known but as essential to
understanding Alexander's work is his theory of 'systems generating
systems' which explains that systems as a whole are created by
'generating systems', and, if we wish to make things which function
as 'wholes', we shall have to invent generating systems to create
them. Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1983
and 1989, as its example, Shifting Patterns is the first book to
examine Alexander's theory of 'systems generating systems' and its
application to a building design. It brings together essays from an
interdisciplinary, international cast of experts, including Eva
Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae
Hosoi, Christian Kuhn, Ida Pristinger, and Norihito Nakatani, as
well as conversations with Hajo Neis and Takaharu Tezuka to
investigate the application of this theory to the school and
university complex, the largest project Alexander has realised
based on pattern language. Among the issues discussed are
topicality, interdisciplinary and internationality, and culture
transfer. The essays also look at the design-build movement as an
antithesis to today's standardised and commerce-driven
architectural production.
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