Leon van Schaik AO is Innovation Professor of Architecture at RMIT University, where he holds an Innovation Chair in Design Practice Research.
Leon van Schaik's Latest contributions
Vale Allan Powell
Leon van Schaik pays tribute to the life and work of Allan Powell, who created a very particular architecture, much admired by his clients as well as colleagues in Europe.
Pursuing the campus vision: Christ Church Grammar Preparatory School
With_Architecture Studio’s recent addition to Perth’s Christ Church Grammar School is a cleverly configured preschool-to-year-six block designed to suit many pedagogical methods.
City in miniature: Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building
By responding to site at a variety of scales, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects has designed a new primary school building in Perth’s Highgate that offers both intimacy and engagement with its inner-suburban context.
Crown on the dunes: Panopticon House
Arising from the undulating dunes of Cape Otway, this house combines a classic nine-square plan with a floating, independently resolved roof profile that controls and enhances panoramic views.
‘A radical excision’: Mulconda
A classically elegant homestead in the Hunter Valley has been transformed with bubbling and inventive playfulness by the architects of Hrmphrdt.
Moments of Place: ‘A Tri-polar investigation into Einstein’s spacetime’
A collaboration between an architect, researcher and artist, Moments of Place at Perth’s Paper Mountain gallery dealt with ideas of place and the imagined audience.
Painterly vision: Crigan House
Allan Powell’s distinctive St Kilda home, that “reveals a Palladian strand in its lineage … a structure designed to host parties.”
Urban vigour: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
Brisbane’s new children’s hospital by Conrad Gargett Lyons is a powerful work of city making.
Marysville 16 Hour Police Station
This police station by Kerstin Thompson Architects embodies a domestic and civic conversation.
Multitudes: Hassell 1938–2013
Leon van Schaik assesses the merits of this book, which marks seventy-five years of work by Hassell.