Drawing Ambience. Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association

As an architect, tutor and critic, Alvin Boyarsky (1928-1990) argued for new models in education and in design practice, which were always linked to global cultural changes. He was chairman of the Architectural Association (AA), a platform for young architects to explore the challenges of the day and define their own visual and spatial languages.

Drawing Out
Riet Eeckhout and Arnaud Hendrickx, curators of Drawing Ambience, invite Belgian artists and architects to go into dialogue with the works from the Alvin Boyarsky collection.

Opening on Tuesday 28 November 2017 at 7pm in deSingel (Antwerp).

Catalogue
An insightful exhibition catalogue has been published and is for sale at the Flanders Architecture Institute:
Drawing Ambience. Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association

Coorganized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. It is co-curated by Igor Marjanović and Jan Howard. Production of the Antwerp edition of the exhibition Flanders Architecture Institute, deSingel International Arts Campus in collaboration with KULeuven and Piet Zwart Institute, MIARD. The Antwerp edition of the exhibition has been initiated and designed by Riet Eeckhout and Arnaud Hendrickx.

All works in the exhibition are from the collection of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive, London, unless otherwise noted, made possible by the generosity of the Boyarsky family.

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association is coorganized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. It is cocurated by Jan Howard, chief curator of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Igor Marjanović, professor architecture at the Washington University in St. Louis and is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalog distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.