Housing the Friendship

The exhibition spans across the Atlantic, through Boyarsky and Hardack, who are architects and educators, sharing a passion for architecture through teaching, exhibitions, publications, and events that have a profound influence on the “epic” and “fable” of the way architecture looks today. Divided into nine chapters, the exhibition focuses on 59 out-of-print precious books and over 200 extended books. The exhibition examines in detail how Blackdeck began with a pioneering modernism, developed unique insights into design practice and architectural education, and reviewed his important trilogy and personal collections. Significant exhibitions and works that span the fields of art and architecture and spread throughout the world. Boyarski's point of view comes from his masterfully published, classic AA Folios series, exploring the various ways to learn architecture and conceptual experimentation through drawing, exhibitions, media, and publications. Finally, the text series, published by the AA School of Architecture for Black Duck, connects the two men's collaboration and friendship. Through their abundant work and passion for teaching, they made a profound influence on contemporary architects such as Zaha Hatti (1950-2016), Rem Kujas (1944-), and Sakamo (1957-). At the opening event, Mr. Ye Yan Xiao, Chairman and Curator of the Wen Sin Art Foundation, in addition to discussing the concept and collection ideas of the book exhibition project, opened a collection booth in the bookstore and responded to the exhibition's friends with “books”. In addition, the Foundation has collaborated with the Taiwan Architecture Newspaper Association to include the contents and extension of the exhibition in “The Epic and Prophecies of Architecture in Ta Taiwan Architecture Magazine, Vol. 299 August 2020”, and looks forward to opening up the vision of future architectural thinking and education.