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Architecture in Its Continuums by Leon van Schaik
Category: Architecture
Leon van Schaik AO, Professor of Architecture at RMIT University for 30 years and mentor to countless Australian architects, lays down his highly influential creative philosophies in his latest book, Architecture in its Continuums. The text represents a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about ar ...Show more
Bell - The Life and Work of Guilford Bell Architect 1912 - 1992 by Leon Van Schaik
Category: Architecture
Building a Culture - Reflections on Three Decades of Design Practice Research at RMIT by Leon van Schaik
Category: Art Instructional
"Every successful enterprise should have a historian at work on its anecdotes... Building a culture is like building a memory, and you need to be sure that the anecdotes you entertain are good ones, ethical ones."- Leon van Schaik. What makes a good school great? A good community of practice great? For ...Show more
Design City Melbourne by Leon Van Schaik
Category: Design | Series: Interior Angles
Melbourne is now coming to the fore as a design hot spot. With three and a half million inhabitants, it is on a scale that is livable and diverse. Its rich and varied cultural intimacy has enabled it to build up a unique dynamism, which is set to shift the entire design agenda of the world much like Bar ...Show more
Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing by Leon van Schaik
Category: Home and Garden
In this book, Leon van Schaik unearths a lineage of landscape and garden ideas that have influenced his thinking over many decades spent practicing and teaching architecture. For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not and abstract consideration, but deeply rooted ...Show more
Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing by Leon van Schaik
Category: Architecture
For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call ...Show more
Fender Katsalidis Architects - Working Architecture by Leon van Schaik + Graeme Gunn + Peter Wilson
Category: Architecture
Working Architecture traces Fender Katsalidis Architects's rich history through an exploration of 31 key projects selected from a diverse portfolio of work, including buildings in the arts, business, private housing and of course in apartment design, where the practice has had significant influence on A ...Show more
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People and Place by Leon van Schaik
Category: Architecture | Series: Editions: Australian Architecture Monographs
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people and place takes readers on an immersive journey into the very heart of this extraordinary body of work, and documents how, over time, the practice has shifted its focus from individual housing to larger-scale public projects created by a collaborative and ...Show more
Mok Wei Wei - Works by W Architects by Mok Wei Wei; Justin Zhuang (Editor); Jiat-hwee Chang (Other); Leon van Schaik (Other)
Category: Architecture
During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has helped create the Singapore we see today. This overview of his large- and small-scale projects completed with his practice, W Architects, includes apartment complexes, museums, houses, and community centers, each reveal ...Show more
Non Fictional Narratives Denton Corker Marshall by Leon van Schaik
Category: Architecture
Founded in Melbourne in 1972, the Australian architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall is one of the most important actors in the Pacific region. DCM is represented in East Asia as well as the Near East and Europe with numerous structures and also has offices in Jakarta and London. In the last five year ...Show more
Pavilions, Pop Ups and Parasols: The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space by Leon Van Schaik
Category: Business | Series: Architectural Design
Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote open-ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed interactions between people. This new phenomenon of architectural form Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols is pre ...Show more