In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions

The first book to document the history of the International Institute of Design (IID), an independent school of architecture founded and directed by Alvin Boyarsky from 1970 – 1972. Through a trove of previously unpublished material, In Progress reveals how three informal architectural gatherings, held over three successive summers, can be seen to have established not only a network of architects and discourses, but a new model for architectural education. Like the DIY ephemera which came out of the Summer Sessions, the design is provocative and idiosyncratic. A custom typeface was developed for the section dividers, inspired by the bold, flamboyant, early-70’s typographic vernacular found in the Summer Sessions archive, and crafted to convey a sense of the low-fi print and publishing methods of the time. 272 pages, 215 × 297 mm Published by the Architectural Association, London and Graham Foundation, Chicago In collaboration with Joe Pochodzaj