Author(s): Leon van Schaik

Architecture and Urbanism

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 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 home–all of these inflect what van Schaik describes as our spatial intelligence. From Persian paradise gardens to the mosaic burning that maintained pre-colonial Australia's 'parkland' landscape, the nested arches of Edwin Lutyens to Renaissance axiality, Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing explores how every line drawn in our world brings a system along with it.