Architecture in its Continuums: Constants; Manners, Modes and Qualities of Engagement; Polarities and their Origins

Architecture in its Continuums is a succinct and engaging manifesto on how architects need to reclaim and celebrate the unique importance of spatial intelligence, an intangible but significant skill that harnesses the potential of space to reveal latent qualities and engender wellbeing. It is a clarion call for a new approach.

Leon van Schaik has been leading research into what practitioners do for over thirty years, offering insights by bringing consciousness to the field, asking what happens when we design and how might “we position ourselves as architects on the stage of practice, in the arenas of society.” This book is a timely primer that hints at the key role the spatial intelligence of architects might play in helping to tackle critical planetary-wide issues as well as those on a more immediate human or city scale. It is