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The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth A Struggle Between Two World-Systems

ISBN: 9780199898077 | 0199898073
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/24/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Using the example of building the Eishin Campus in Japan, this book demonstrates the successful application of Christopher Alexander's principles and production methods to large-scale building projects and communities. It establishes the foundations of a new system of creation and production that includes the best of current building practices. It invites us, collectively and individually, to contribute to an entirely new built landscape, embracing creation, art, craft, technology,ecology, and science - all that we call architecture.
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Preface: A New Architecture and a New Civilization

PART I: SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF ARCHITECTURE IN OUR TIME
1. The Campus of Eishin Gakuen
2. The Crucial Importance of Local Adaptation
3. System-A and System-B: A Necessary Confrontation
4. Inner Aspects of the Two Production Systems
5. The Wasteland in Our Hearts
6. Wholeness and the Whole

PART II: RUMBLINGS OF A COMING BATTLE
7. Hosoi's Dream
8. Creating Life in the Environment
9. A Pattern Language for ... MORE

Christopher Alexander's series of groundbreaking books--including The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language--have illuminated fundamental truths of traditional ways of building, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to buildings and towns.

HansJoachim Neis is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon in Portland, and the Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory.

Maggie Moore Alexander serves on the Center for Environmental Structure Board of Directors.


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