English Canadian in French Canadian city (outsider)
McGill University Architecture School
Chairman of the Architecture Association School of Architecture (1971 to 1990)
Chicago SAIC (School of the Art
Heavily influenced (like everybody else) by Le Corbusier
Boyarsky (like Rem) had a huge postcard collection
The Infrastructure postcard
The City as a Complex Section
The metaphors or literal interpretation of ‘infrastructure’ as a kind of ‘historical-natural’ phenomenon
Le Corbusier spoke of discovering "a new fauna: the machines”
Boyarsky's Educational Infrastructure
Interationalism as a pedagogical approach
“"I don't have a base. I move around the world and so I always think of my activities as being involved with international events.”
Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1971 to 1990
Reconfiguring education / architecture as a critical pursuit
The “unit” structure of formerly beaux-arts education
AA ‘‘unit system,’’ a competitive framework of vertical studios, or ‘‘units,’’ that each offered tutors autonomous pedagogical territory for developing individualized architectural investigations: Archigram, Robin Evans, Léon Krier, Bernard Tschumi, Dalibor Vesely, Elia Zenghelis, Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and Rem Koolhaas
In the Autumn of 1967, Lloyd abandoned the Year System in an attempt to facilitate research, independent decision making, and a ‘‘shift in emphasis from the teaching of a curriculum towards the education of the individual will.’’
“public lectures, razzamatazz, beautiful posters, postcards, street parties”
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