Lines and words on display: Alvin Boyarsky as a collector, curator and publisher

In 1983, the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture mounted an exhibition of Zaha Hadid's work titledPlanetary ArchitectureII. An image from this event shows Hadid as she points to one of the drawings on the wall surrounded by a group of listeners. The interior is saturated with drawings. As they unfold before the viewer, the drawings blur the boundaries between walls, floors and ceiling. An interior space wrapped in drawing, orchestrated by the exhibitor, the image of this show is nevertheless also an expression of the pedagogical ideas of Alvin Boyarsky, the chairman of the AA school between 1971 and 1990.