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TOPIC     THE EISHIN PROCESS

BOOK 1

Chapter  10
Pages 394-402: The impact of the design on human life: "For the first time I was free" the expression of a student in the Eishin community.

BOOK 2

Chapter  14
Pages 378-83: Deep feeling. Introduction to the idea that order and design must come from the search for deep feeling in the thing being made -- here applied to the formation of the columns in the Great Hall.

Chapter  14
Pages 388-97: Further discussion of deep feeling at Eishin, now applied to the overall distribution of colors in materials, to the placing of the library, and to the relation of rain and umbrellas to the life of the whole community.

Chapter  15
Pages 422-30: The evolution of the structural forms in the buildings at Eishin. Discussion of the crucial role of structure and simplicity of structure in achieving life.

Chapter  17
Pages 468-89: Simplicity. The crucial role of simplicity in achieving life.

BOOK 3

Chapter  7
Pages 198-211: Positive space in the geometry of engineering structure in the buildings of the Eishin campus.

Chapter  18
Pages 594 & 613: The process of introducing and injecting ornament.

Chapter  19
Pages 634-38: Judging and mixing color in the Great Hall.

BOOK 4

Chapter  8
Pages 250-58: Unity and sadness giving the buildings their depth.