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5 Christopher Alexander et al. – Sala
House, Albany, California, 1982-85: Interior.(Neil Jackson)
6 Christopher Alexander et al. – Sala
House, Albany, California, 1982-85: Interior.(Neil Jackson)
discussing the Eishin campus, constructed
in 1985, Alexander presents the project as a kind of civil war between two
competing systems of buildings. The first – “world system A” – is based on his
use of the Pattern Language, and the second – “world system B” – the
conventional, professionally organized, construction process.
World
system A is based on human feelings. It is engaged in trying to create a world
in which human feeling comes first, … and in which wholeness (and) rightness, …
is the quality in the world, which embodies and depends on human feeling at
every point. World system B is based on mechanical and unfeeling processes. It
poses a world of money, opportunity and power, in which ultimate things –
wholeness and spirit – are relegated to a very distant palce.36
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