Ghost Building an Architectural Vision

by MacKay-Lyons, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781568987361
• ISBN10: 1568987366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Summary

For the past nine years, architect Brian MacKay-Lyons has directed Ghost research lab, a two-week design-build internship and educational initiative for architects, professors and students which takes place every summer on the coast of Nova Scotia. The program is designed to promote the transfer of architectural knowledge through direct experience, learning taught in the master-builder tradition, with an emphasis on issues of landscape, material culture and community. More than a documentation of the design-build event-with drawings, models, and process and final photographs-Ghost reveals MacKay-Lyons' exploration of the idea of utopia through the history of the land, and specifically through architecture itself. The book features essays by some of the most eminent architectural critics, including Christine Macy, Brian Carter, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Kenneth Frampton, Thomas Fisher, Juhani Pallasmaa, Peter Buchanan and Robert McCarter.

Author Biography

Brian MacKay-Lyons was born and raised in Acadia, Nova Scotia. He is a professor of architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and co-founder of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd. His work is the subject of the 2005 monograph

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 10
Ghost Stories	p. 15
Hill	p. 35
Concept and Construct/Earth and Sky	p. 43
Landfall	p. 55
Expedition to the Coast of Nova Scotia	p. 63
Pots and Pans	p. 73
The Bones of Ghosts: Structuring the Ephemeral	p. 81
Why Albert Oxner Shingled His Barn	p. 93
On the Fringes of the Empire	p. 101
Barnyard	p. 111
Seeing Ghosts	p. 119
The Education of an Architect	p. 135
The Dance of Construction	p. 143
Village Architect	p. 157
Escaping Normality to Embrace Reality	p. 165
Willing	p. 183
The Thought of Construction	p. 191
Listening	p. 213
Contributor Biographies	p. 218
Ghost Participants	p. 220
Image Credits	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 224
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