leon van schaik
innovation professor of architecture at RMIT University
Publications
2008
Book
van Schaik, L, 2008, Denton Corker Marshall: Non-fictional Narratives, Birkhauser, Basel, Boston, Berlin
van Schaik, L, 2008, Spatial Intelligence, Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK
Book chapter
van Schaik, L, 2008, Volume: John Wardle Architects, Thames & Hudson 2008, Melbourne Australia
van Schaik, L, 2008, Unified Design; Arup Associates, Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK
van Schaik, L, 2008, Architecture of Change, Gestalten, Berlin Germany
Magazine review
van Schaik, L, 2008, Commonwealth Place Kiosks, Architectural Review, Melbourne Australia
van Schaik, L, 2008, The High Point, (Hobart House Terrior), Monument, Sydney, Australia
van Schaik, L, 2008, Glenburn House (Sean Godsell Architects), Architectural Record New York, USA
Media
van Schaik, L, 2008, Constraining The Sprawl, The Age, 14 May 2008, Melbourne Australia
Conference Papers
van Schaik, L, 2008, ‘The role of local cultures of architecture in an age of globalisation’, RAIA Critical Visions 08, Sydney Australia
2007
Book chapter
van Schaik, L, 2007, Asian Alterity’, William SW Lim – Case Studies of Asian Cities, World Scientific Publications, Singapore
van Schaik, L, 2007, Atlas: Global Architecture’, Foundation BBVA, Madrid Spain
Magazine review
van Schaik, L, 2007, Home body(Households by Mark Robbins), Architectural Design Rationalists Traces, London UK
van Schaik, L, 2007, Visting the Australian Garden, (Kerstin Thompson Architects), Architecture Australia, Sydney Australia
van Schaik, L, 2007, Lord Falconer Manchester, Civil Justice Centre England, (Denton Corker Marshall), Architectural Review, Sydney Australia
van Schaik, L, 2007, Trojan Horse: Acton Park House (Terroir), Monument Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
van Schaik, L, 2007, Contour Line: Glenburn Yarra Valley House (Sean Godsell), Monument Magazine, Melbourne Australia
Conference Papers
van Schaik, L. 2007, ‘Mastering architecture and creative innovation, RIBA Research Symposium 2007, London UK
2006
Book
van Schaik, L, 2006, Design City Melbourne, Wiley & Sons, Chichester UK
2005
Book
van Schaik, L 2005 Mastering Architecture, Becoming a Creative
Innovator in Practice, Wiley & Sons, Chichester
Book Chapter
van Schaik, L Second Order Modernism in Architecture, in Ignasi
de Sola Morales and Xavier Costa (Eds) 2005, Metropolis, Editorial
Gustavo Gili, SA, Barcelona pp 64-77
2004
Book
van Schaik, L 2004 Sean Godsell Electa, Milan
Book chapter
van Schaik, L “Melbourne (Low) Rising,” in David SokoL
(Ed.) Property Development and Progressive Architecture: The New
Alliance, John Wiley and Sons, London, pp68-74
van Schaik, LHR, Sight Lines “Light”, ibid, pp.126-127.
van Schaik, L and Heneghan, T, L van Schaik and Tom Heneghan “Melbourne
(Low) Rising,” in David SokoL (Ed.) Property Development and
Progressive Architecture: The New Alliance, John Wiley and Sons,
London, pp68-74
van Schaik, L, “Digital Design” in Imagining the Future,
Lab3000 Digital Design Biennale, Lab.3000 Innovation in Digital
Design, 2004, pp.11-14.
van Schaik, L, “The Design of the Digital Design Biennale Exhibition”,
ibid, pp.18-20.
Conference paper – keynote address
van Schaik, L, “Innovative Architecture: Building local platforms
of mastery that give rise to innovative architecture,” keynote address
to International Cities and Town Centres Conference, Fremantle,
5-7 May 2004.
Published on website http://www.ictcsociety.org/conference2004/index.htm
van Schaik, L “Innovative Architecture: Building local platforms
of mastery that give rise to innovative architecture,” Charles Darwin
University Symposium Series 2004, Creative Tropical City, 2-3 June
2004, keynote address published on symposium website - http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdss
2003
Book
van Schaik, L 2003 “Ecocells – landscapes and masterplans by
Hamzah and Yeang” Wiley – Academy, London
van Schaik L. (Ed.) The Practice of Practice: research in the medium
of design, RMIT University Press
Book Chapter
van Schaik, L 2003 “The Practice of Practice: practice based
research in Architecture,” in L van Schaik (Ed.) The Practice
of Practice: research in the medium of design, RMIT University Press,
pp12-20
2002
Book
van Schaik, L 2002, “The Guthrie Pavilion, T.R. Hamzah &
Yeang Sdn Bhd”, VDG Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften,
Weimar.
van Schaik L. (Ed.)“Poetics in Architecture”, Architectural
Design, John Wiley and Sons, London
Book Chapter
van Schaik, L 2002, Introduction, in L van Schaik (Ed.)“Poetics
in Architecture”, Architectural Design, John Wiley and Sons,
London pp 5-9
van Schaik, L 2002 “Anger in the Landscape” Technique, RMIT University
Press pp 8-16
van Schaik, L 2002 “Introduction”, Dia- Architecture Thesis
Projects 2000-2001, RMIT University Press, pp vi - ix
van Schaik, L 2002 “The Modernism of modernism, or second order
modernism”, Pause, RMIT University Press.
van Schaik, L 2002 “Festschirift!”, No limits - articulating
William Lim, Select Publishing Pte Ltd., pp 3-12
2001
Book Chapter
van Schaik, L 2001 “Ephemeral Architecture” , Bridging the gap?-
Programme Book, Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, pp147.
van Schaik, L 2001 “Hamilton: a Microcosm” and “The Cities”, Australia-
The Complete Story, Global Book Publishing, Sydney pp224-231.
2000
Book
van Schaik L. (Ed.) Interstitial Modernism, RMIT, ISBN
086459085-7
Book Chapter
van Schaik, L 2000, ‘Architecture in Asia: Province and Metropolis’,
in Tan Kok Meng (Ed.), Asian Architects 1, Select Books,
Singapore, pp 15-31.
van Schaik, L 2000, “Ruins of the Future”, School of Architecture
and Design, RMIT.
van Schaik, L 2000, “Curatorial Intention”, Ruins of the
Future, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, pp 4-10.
van Schaik, L 2000, “Interstitial modernism-‘Second Order’
or Meta-Modernism at RMIT”, in L van Schaik (Ed.) Interstitial
Modernism, RMIT, ISBN 086459085-7, pp 6-10
van Schaik, L 2000, “Political Space”, in Kovac Malone,
Aedes, Berlin, pp 4-8.
van Schaik, L 2000, “Libeskind and the Colonial”, in Elly
Bloom (Ed.) Lineage: The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind,
The Jewish Museum of Australia, pp 19-22
van Schaik, L 2000, Foreword “Donaldson and Warn- Crossing Midfield”,
Birkhauser- Publishers for Architecture, BaseL ISBN 3-7643-6334-7,
pp 7-17.
van Schaik, L 2000, “Dim Resonances: Five Ideas that inform my Practice,”
in Shane Murray (Ed.) 38 South ii, RMIT, pp 4-7, 130-137
Other publications
Civil Service, Architectural Review Australia, #72, pp 56-63.
In Print, Architectural Review Australia #71, pp 56-65.
Malaysian Architects, Architectural Review Australia, #71, pp 50-
55.
Postcard from London, Architectural Review Australia, #71, pp 28-29.
Meta- Modernism: a Research Led Practice, Space 0008, #393, pp 90-93,
Korea.
Every House a Heartache…, Architectural Review Australia Residential
2000, pp12-19.
The high life, World Architecture, Issue # 86, May, pp 68-71.
No.5 Gemmill Lane, by Look Architects, Singapore Architecture, pp
59-65.
Nervegna Reed House, Monument, Architecture and Design, Oct/ Nov
, #38, pp 66-72.
1999
Chapters of Books/Editor of Books
Introductory Chapter, The Life Work of Guilford Bell, Architect,
1912-1992, Bookman Transition Publishing, Melbourne, ISBN 0-95872-061-4,
pp 24-36.
Kovac Malone, in Sci Fi Architecture, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
London, ISSN 0003-8504, pp 91-96.
Other Publications
Chapter, Beauty, Novelty and Frames for living: Australian Architecture
at the End of Modernism’s Century, in Davina Jackson (Ed.) 40 Up
Exhibition Catalogue, Lend Lease Corporation, Sydney, ISBN 0-646-37175-4.
Between Abstraction and Cultural Reference – House at Morley Road,
Singapore Architect, no.201, pp 24-31.
Singapore Architects – Mok Wei Wei, Review, Architectural Review
Australia, no.67, pp 82-87.
Commonwealth Law Courts – Hassell, Review, Public Architecture,
Belle Corporate Design, pp 76-81.
Local Connections, Architecture Australia, May/June, 1999, Vol 88,
No.3, pp 84-89.
Divine Detail, Monument, No. 31, August/September, pp 44-47.
The Modernism of Modernism, (Inside)Interior Review, No. 13, pp
42 – 45.
Box of Joys, Architecture Australia, September/October, pp 44-49.
Sean Godsell’s Kew House, Domus.
‘Dialogue with Taipei’, Hinge, Vol.61, Hong Kong, pp 58-49.
Malaysian Architects – Suzanne Zeidler and Huat Lim, Architecture
Review Australia, no. 70, pp 44-46.
Melbourne’s Architecture, Book review, Trust News, Vol.28, No.3,
pp 25.
Visions…Dreaming of St.Kilda, Architect Australia, November/ December,
1999, pp 32-33.
Terrain vague – A Melbourne reflection on sites of abandonment,
Photofile 57, 1SSN 0811 0859, Australian Centre for Photography,
pp 22 –24.
Local Hero, Review of Prince of Wales, St Kilda, Melbourne, World
Architecture, No.81, November, 1SSN 0956 9758, pp 92-93.
1998
Chapters of Books/ Editor of books
Introduction, The Master Architect Series III, T. R. Hamzah &
Yeang, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, 1998. pp 10-13
(Ed.) Introduction: Ushida Findlay Works, 2G International Architecture
Review No.6, Editorial Gustavo Gili S.A. Barcelona, 1998. pp 11-17
(Ed.) Introduction, Architectural Monographs No 50 Tom Kovac, Academy
Editions 1998 pp 6-13
(Ed.) Asia Design Forum # Eight,
Conference proceedings (published)
Ethics and Aesthetics, Ethics and Aesthetics, III National Convention
of IIID, Indian Institute of Interior Designers, 1998, pp 9
Hough, G, McNaught, C, van Schaik, LHR, Developing a Faculty Plan
For Flexible Delivery for the Next Five Years and How to Get There,
Ascilite ’98 flexibiITy: The next Wave? University of Wollongong,
1998 pp 339-346
Moderator’s Introduction, Asia Design Forum #8, catalogue, Ken Yeang
Publication, ISBN 086-444-735-3, 1998, pp 5-6
Contemporary Vernacular, Contemporary Vernacular, Conceptions +
Perceptions, AA Asia, ISBN 981-04-0518-9, 1998 pp 30-34
Other Publications
Yoin, catalogue, RMIT Gallery and Sagacho Exhibit Space, 1998 ISBN
0864447086
Terragni, an experience, Terragni, catalogue, Zabriske Point, Melbourne
1998 DIS/APPEARANCE Charles Anderson with Paul Carter, Monument
no.26, 1998, pp 99
Profile on Perth, Monument no. 27, 1998, pp 46-57
Design and Education, Monument yearbook 1998, 1998, pp 74-75
Singapore Architects, Tang Guan Bee, Architectural Review Australia,
no.66, 1998, pp 76-81
Street Credentials, Architecture Australia, Sept/Oct 1998, pp 50-55
Minimalists with a sense of place, The Australian September 25,
1998 pp 40
Fad Land, (inside) Issue 9, pp 60-65
The Shark, Architectural Review Australia, Autumn 98, pp 44
Patron’s Statement and Introduction, 5 from the 5th Continent catalogue,
Curtin University ISBN 1 86342 668 X, 1998 pp 6, 8-9
Big Chill, RIBA International, May 1998, pp 6-11
1997
Books
(Ed) Guilford Bell Monograph, Book concept, Editor and chapter,
at printers. Published Schwartz Transition, Melbourne, launched
June 1997
(Ed) with Nigel Bertram (Department of Architecture, RMIT) and Winsome
Callister, Building 8: Edmond and Corrigan at RMIT, Published Schwartz
Transition, Melbourne. Book concept and editing and chapter, final
draft assembled end 1996, launched March 1997
(Ed.) with Murray S editors, 38 South March 1997
Conference proceedings (published)
‘Proceedings,’ Asia Design Forum #7 catalogue, Ken Yeang Publications
ISBN 1328-6188, 1997 pp 10-37
‘Global /Local. Intersection of Strengths’, Quaderns 213, Association
of Catalan Architects, Barcelona, 1997. pp 76.
Other Recent Publications
Neither Carved Nor Moulded: An Architecture of the Third Term, Monument#17.
Terraplane Press Pty Ltd, 1997. pp 35
Global/Local: Intersection of Strengths, Quaderns 213, Association
of Catalan Architects, Barcelona, 1997. pp 76
Elastic Collisions, Architecture Australia, January/February, Architecture
Media Australia Pty Ltd, 1997. pp 30-35
Genesis, Architecture Australia September/October. Architecture
Media Australia Pty Ltd, 1997. pp 40-47
Architecture: Business or Profession, Monument # 21 , Terraplane
Press Pty Ltd, 1997. pp 90-92
Dambusters, Inside No.6, (Niche) Media Pty Ltd, 1997. pp 58-63
Coarse Architecture, Transition # 56, Faculty of the Constructed
Environment, RMIT, 1997. pp 76-78.
Social Condensers: The Club as a Social Force, William Lim Associates
exhibition catalogue. RMIT 1997. pp 2-7
Tectonics a Metalanguage? Content, Faculty of Architecture, Sydney.
1997 pp 30-35
Altered Perception Inside No.6, (Niche) Media Pty Ltd,1997. pp78-82
1996
Books
(Ed.) Asia Design Forum #6, also includes a chapter to be published
by Telescope, Tokyo in 1996.
Chapter of Book
Province and Metropolis I and II chapter of a book on the life of
Alvin Boyarsky: The Idea of the City, AA publications 1996 ISBN
1 870890 33 7
In Ken Yeang, The Skyscraper Bio-climatically Considered: chapter
as interspersed comments.
Fluxus: Dim Resonances. Keynote address published in Catalogue for
UIA Barcelona 96, XIX Congress of the International Union of Architects.
Architecture/Urbanism of the Distributed Field versus Architecture/Urbanism
of the expanded field, Bulletin, UIA Barcelona, XIXth Congress of
the International Union of Architects, Barcelona ‘96.
Asia Design Forum # 6, Transition 52/53 pp 106 - 111.
Dim Resonances and Architectural Reality, Architecture Australia
November/December pp 73 - 78 - edited from RAIA NSW Tuscullum Series
Public Lecture 1995.
Soft Urbanism: 15 Projects, Ruins of the Future pp 141 - 148, published
Kumamoto Artpolis 1996
1995
Book
( Ed.) Transfiguring the Ordinary 1995 Printed Books Melbourne
Other Publications
Architecture Australia January/February 1995 pp 26-31 Ninja Imagery
at Home in Tokyo
Catalogue Essay for Sculptural Metaphors: Tom Kovac, Gallery Sobodne
umetnosti, Slovenia
Catalogue essays on John King, Michael Leeton and Kate Pointon for
Major Projects 1995, Department of Architecture, RMIT.
Architectural Reality: A Continuum Concept AA Files #28 Feb 1995
Shelley Lassica - Review Art and Australia
1994
Other publications
The Sound of Space Art and Australia pp 244 - 249, November 1994.
Architecture of the Distributed Field Versus Architecture of the
Expanded Field Journal of The Indian Institute of Architects Vol
49 Issue 04 April May 1994.
Three Strands of Urbanism - Acton Peninsula: an RMIT Case Study
Transition #41 pp58 - 68
Participation: Whose Memory? Housing Design for Bush Communities
Transition # 43 1994
New Ideas in Urban Design? Design Australia Skills for 2010 published
Sydney University
1993
Book
(Ed.) Fin de Siecle: Architectures of Melbourne. Day, Elliott, Katsalidis,
Raggatt, Rijavec and Selenitsch & Trudgeon (1993). RMIT A+D.
Other publications
Design Windows - Rich Dreams Keynote paper presented at MCA Conference
Here There and Everywhere Sydney 12-13 March 1992, published as
Education - Innovation Architect May 1992
Interior Architecture: The Art of Virtual Space The Interior Volume
One Number 3/4 February 1992
'The Profession and Architecture: Daedalean Dilemmas', The Architect,
journal of the Western Australia Chapter of RAIA, Spring 1992 Volume
32 No. 3. pp 10 -16.
'Microworks', The Interior Vol 1, no.s 5&6, pp 16 - 18
'WoodMarsh', The Interior Vol 1, no.s 5&6, pp 40 - 43
Critical Essay on the work of Denton Corker Marshall, third edition
of 'Contemporary Architects' ed. Emanuel, M. published Gale Research
International Ltd, London.1993
1992
Corrigan's Architecture as a Paradigm for the Possible in the Far
South l'Architecture d'Ajourdhui in print Sept 1992
Katsalidis Towers Architecture Australia in print August 1992
Province and Metropolis I and II Agenda Issue 24 July August 1992
The Dybbuk Set Design by Peter Corrigan Review in Architect July
1992
Wood Marsh Architecture Catalogue Essay City Gallery April 1992
Signature Cities Backlogue - Journal of the Halftime Club Volume
One March1992
'Innovation and New Works' paper presented at RAIA International
Conference: The Challenge of Excellence Melbourne March 1992
Design Windows - Rich Dreams Keynote paper presented at MCA Conference
Here There and Everywhere Sydney 12-13 March 1992, published as
Education - Innovation Architect May 1992
'Participation in Architecture' paper presented at RAIA International
Conference: The Challenge of Excellence Melbourne March 1992
Design Windows - Rich Dreams Keynote paper presented at MCA Conference
Here There and Everywhere Sydney 12-13 March 1992
Interior Architecture: The Art of Virtual Space The Interior Volume
One Number 3/4 February 1992
300 La Trobe: Boomstyle. Review in The Interior Volume One Number
3/4 February 1992
1991
'A Critical Appraisal of the Process and the Results of (?) the
Development Process in Melbourne in the Second Half of the 1980s'
keynote paper presented at RAIA Professional Development Seminar
on Urban Design, Clunies Ross House 21 October 1991
Freemasonry or Free Interchange? A New Model for Training Architects
and Designers Artlink Magazine 1991
Sir John Soane, Architect The Interior Volume One, Number One, May
1991.
1990
Su Dance: Spring in Fitzroy TRANSITION No 31 1990
Shane Murray: Architecture as Art TRANSITION No 31 1990
The Stones of our World, program notes (1000 words) for the annual
travelling Oxford, Boston and Melbourne Conversazione, La Trobe
University, June 1990.
1989
Ten Years of Transition: Review EDITIONS No 2 publ Gregory Harvey
Sydney 1989
Robin Boyd and Australian Architectural Criticism: a Reassessment
AGENDA, Issue 7, Melbourne 1989
Borrowed Images: Architecture - Design for Dreaming Film Comment,
publ. Film Society of the Lincoln Center Vol 25 Number 2 March April,
New York 1989
Afterword to Denise Scott Brown, ‘Invention and Tradition in the
Making of American Place’ TRANSITION No29, Melbourne 1989
Code City 89 Parts 1 and 2 TRANSITION Nos 27/28 1989
Borrowed Images: Architecture - Design for Dreaming FILM COMMENT,
publ. Film Society of the Lincoln Center Vol 25 Number 2 March April,
New York 1989
1988
The Future for Architects - a paper delivered by Leon Van Schaik
at the "Architecture and the Future" Symposium of the
RAIA, Victorian Chapter, Architect, Feb. 1988,
1987
Transition No. 22/23 Summer 1987, pp 74-80 Architektburo Bolles
Wilson.
Transition No. 22/23 Summer 1987, pp 56-59 Daryl Jackson Pty Ltd:
Reflections on the Role of the Designer in the Corporate Firm.
AA files Number 14, 1987 pp 94 - 97 Mark Pimlott & Peter St.
John: Competition for the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts, New Delhi. Review.
AA files Number 14, 1987 pp 48-54 Province and Metropolis: an overview
of the effects of regional differences on design with reference
to the author's own work.
1986
Architecture S.A. 1986 Against Regionalism
1985
A.A.Files, March 1985. pp 45-53. Walls Toys and the 'Ideal' Room:
an analysis of Sir John Soane's Architecture.
PBD Feb/March 1985: Sapoa Seminar on Refurbishment of Buildings
pp.42.
Architecture S.A. May/June 1985: Rationalism and Contextualism pp.
52-56.
1984
PBD April/May 1984: The Funda Centre, Diepmeadow Soweto pp 53-62.
PBD June/July 1984: Belvedere,75 flats in Randburg pp.53-55.
Architecture S.A. Sept/Oct 1984: Spec Architecture pp.28-29
Architecture S.A. May/June 1984: Star Homes Revisited pp. 42-45
1983
Architecture S.A. May/June 1983: Reflections on the Study of indigenous
or self-made Architecture pp. 35-38.
The Relevance of Rural Self Build Architecture to Practice, Cape
Town, I.S.A.A. Congress, 1983.
1982
Rural Architecture; Lessons - for Design and Teaching, University
of Capetown, 1982, unpublished dissertation for Master of Architecture..
1981
Architecture S.A. October 1981: Star Homes 1981, An Assessment of
the Festival Exhibition at Lonehill pp. 34-40
1979
Eventism, record of theoretical incorporation of activity analysis
into design, London; Architectural Association 1979.
1978
The Design of a Role Assumption Game, April 1978; record of work
in support above.
1977
The Poetics of Space, Mental Space and the Design of Place, Isili
Sam Sise Africa, University of Capetown.1977.
1976
Review of Heron van Schaik design: Stonypath Gallery, A.R. 1976,
June.
1975
A Space: in Tschumi, Bernard (Ed.) A Space: A thousand Words. Dieci
Libri. London
1971
Descent Into the Street; Architectural Association, London, 1971;
unpublished Diploma dissertation dealing with principles of design
interaction with user communities.