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Leon van Schaik is Innovation Profession of Architecture at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. At RMIT, he has developed a practice-based research programme for architects and designers whose works already demonstrates mastery in their field. He has over the same seventeen-year period instituted a process of consultant appointment that is widely credited with shifting the climate of patronage within the city. Recent works by van Schaik include monographs on: Edmond and Corrigan, Ushida Findlay, Guilford Bell, Tom Kovac and Ken Yeang’s Guthrie Pavilion as well as the Poetics in Architecture issue of Architectural Design.

Introduction: Mastering Architecture – Becoming a Creative Practitioner.

Zone 1: The Individual in Mastery – The Natural History of the Creative Practitioner,

Antwerp: Martine de Maeseneer,

Austin: Kevin Alter,

Brisbane: Donovan Hill,

Christchurch: Thom Craig.

Hobart: Leigh Woolley.

Kuala Lumpur: Architron.

London: Jenny Lowe.

Melbourne: Ian McDougall/Allan Powell/John Wardle.

New York: Michael Sorkin.

Perth: Geoff Warn.

Singapore: Look Boon Gee, Richard Hassell, Mok Wei Wei.

Sydney: Ian Moore/Stephen Varady/Durbach Block.

Scotland, Tokyo and London: Kathryn Findlay.

Ljubljana and Melbourne: Tom Kovac.

Zone 2: The Groups in Mastering.

Self-Curating Collectives: Terroir, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects.

Fostering Informal Associations: William Lim, Ken Yeang.

Partnerships for Life and Practice: Julian Feary and Kate Heron: Enchaining Art, Vorberg and Kirchhofer – VK Architecture.

Migrating Contexts: Colin Fournier, Louis Kruger.

Establishing Poles: Sean Godsell, Allan Powell.

Firms that sustain innovation from within: ARM, Lyons.

Zone 3: Thwarted Mastery.

Overshadowing.

Technical Over-Refinement.

Forgetting Cultural Capital.

Confusing the Knowledge Base.

Failing to Elevate Innovations into a Metropolitan Discourse – Raphael Moneo.

Zone 4: Encouraging Mastery and Innovation.

Encouraging Mastery and Innovation.

Collective Environments that Encourage.

Regional and Provincial Environments that Encourage.

Metropolitan Environments that Encourage.

Zone 5: Self-Curationas a Portal from Mastery to Creative Innovation.

Wood Marsh and Resistance.

Leon van Schaik and the Ideogram Approach.

The Melbourne Concourse of Architecture.

Reflection.

Useful Tips.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Photo Credits

Index.