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7 Christopher Alexander et al. – Mexicali
Housing, Mexico, 1976. (Neil Jackson)
Aside
from the questionably “spiritual” qualities that might be present in Alexander’s
architecture, in the context of modern Japan this project was seen as a threat
to the economic system. In Alexander’s words this confrontation takes on the
scale of a heroic encounter, but it does show the consequences of any attempt
to subvert the system:
We
see the Japanese (construction) companies aware, for the first time, of the
fact that our intention to implement system A, might have serious consequences
for their own future in Japan. What we were doing, … in its pure form posed a
threat to the whole Japanese construction industry. … They therefore set out to
ensure that it must fail.37
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