August 29, 2009 | Broadcast Exhibitions

Exhibition: Thinking About Architecture, Thinking About Architects. Ideograms by Leon van Schaik AO
The Singapore Viewing: 12-26 September 2009, Mon-Fri, 1000hrs – 1700 hrs
Place: WOHAGA, 29 HongKong Street, Singapore 059668

WOHA Gallery cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition of the Australian architect and critic, on Saturday, 12 September 2009 at 5:30PM.

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 Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT, from which base he has promoted local and international architectural culture through practice-based research. He is author of several books: Mastering Architecture, Design City Melbourne and Spatial Intelligence (Wiley). His next book, Procuring Innovative Architecture will be released by Routledge in 2010.

Please RSVP for the exhibition opening by Friday, 4 September 2009 to Serena Khor at 65-6423-4555 or . If you wish to bring groups of more than 5 to the exhibition, please arrange an appropriate date and time with the undersigned.

Exhibition Catalogue

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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.