“Offers an excellent number of thoughts on what the AA school was in Boyarsky’s years and, more specifically, in the first decade of his tenure.”
 

Domus

“Well-written and beautifully produced.”
 

Architect’s Newspaper

“Upends familiar ideas about progression, succession and antecedence.”

Guardian, on the exhibition

"The works on display in Drawing Ambience reveal that some of the finest architectural minds of our time were indeed visionaries."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on the exhibition

“A treasure trove of early architectural drawings from the world’s leading architects.”

ArchDaily, on the exhibition

Alvin Boyarsky was a great collector with an abiding passion not only for drawings but also for the people who made them and their ideas.

Peter Eisenman

This intelligent and clearly written analysis of architecture of the 1970s and 1980s reminds us once again of the central role that drawing played, perhaps for the final time, in the architectural experiments of the period. A sophisticated account of architectural education, the volume recounts how the Architectural Association functioned as a school under Alvin Boyarsky’s leadership and the role that drawing played in shaping its unique spirit.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

As chairman of the Architectural Association Alvin Boyarsky was amazingly astute at spotting creative talents. From each he extracted a drawing, sometimes two, which were in time to make up a remarkable collection. The story of this episode, vital to the history of contemporary architecture, is fully explored here, as nowhere else, illustrated with a host of the drawings that punctuated it.

Robin Middleton

At a time when the art of architectural representation has all but ceded the field to the computer render, this delectable collection of drawings, accompanied by illuminating commentary, is most welcome.

Joan Ockman