Building a Culture by Leon van Schaik - ISBN: 9780648435587
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In Building a Culture, Leon van Schaik traces the origin and development of design practice research at RMIT and his own journey into architecture and its teaching.

Building a Culture

Reflections on three decades of design practice at RMIT

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 2020

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Summary

“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 SchaikWhat makes a good school great? A good community of practice great? For close to half-a-century, architect and educator Leon van Schaik has prosecuted an answer to these questions. It is a venture that would lead him from the Architectural Association in London, to the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780648435587
ISBN-10:064843558X
Author:Leon van Schaik, Stuart Geddes
Publisher:Uro Publications
Imprint:Uro Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:15 March 2020
Weight:372g
Dimensions:240mm x 170mm
About The Author

Leon van Schaik

Leon van Schaik AO is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Previous publications include: Architecture in its Continuums (Uro Publications 2018); Suburbia Reimagined (Routledge 2018 with Nigel Bertram); Practical Poetics in Architecture (Wiley 2015); Meaning in Space (Lyon Housemuseum 2012); Procuring Innovative Architecture (Routledge 2010, with Geoffrey London); Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture (Wiley Academy 2008); Mastering Architecture (Wiley Academy 2005).

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