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Wednesday Nov 18, 2009 at 9:00am to Friday Dec 18 at 5:00pm
Marylebone,
London
Greater London,
United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING EXHIBITION, LONDON SHOWING
Thinking About Architecture, Thinking About Architects
Ideograms by Leon van Schaik
OPENING: 17th November 2009, 18.00-20.30pm.
Opening Address by Sir Peter Cook
EXHIBITION DATES: Exhibition open daily from 18th November-18th December
EXHIBITION VENUE: The Bridge Gallery, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, 1st Floor 35 Marylebone Road, London
RSVP and enquiries: bridgegallery@westminster.ac.uk
Exhibitor: Leon van Schaik AO, RMIT Professor of Architecture, Innovation Chair
Catalogue Essay: Richard Blythe, Professor of Architecture, Head of Architecture + Design
Exhibited Practices:
Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Edmond and Corrigan
Minifie Nixon
Sean Godsell Architects
WOHA
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To imagine that Leon van Schaik’s ideographs represent a thinking process would be to miss the point. They are not representational but rather they are the thinking. Thinking in action if you will, concretised in a drawing. To make this claim in our post-Socratic world is radical in that it suggests that the movement of the arm and hand are integral, it is to claim that the body thinks.
Leon van Schaik AO, LFRAIA, RIBA, PhD, is a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster and Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT, from which base he has promoted local and international architectural culture through practice-based research. He is the author of several books: Mastering Architecture, Design City Melbourne and Spacial Intelligence (Wiley). His next book, Procuring Innovative Architecture will be released by Routledge in 2010.
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