Ghost pb: The Acadian Design and Building Event

Mackay-Lyons, Brian

ISBN 10: 1568987366 / ISBN 13: 9781568987361

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghost pb: The Acadian Design and Building Event
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568987366
• ISBN 13: 9781568987361
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

For two weeks each summer, architect Brian MacKay-Lyons uses his family farm on the east coast of Nova Scotia for a special event . Among the stone ruins of a village almost four hundred years old, he assembles a community of architects, professors, and students for a design-build internship and educational initiative called Ghost Research Lab. The two-week project―one week of design and one-week of construction―rests on the idea that architecture is not only about building but also about the landscape, its history, and the community. Based on the apprenticeship environment of the ancient guilds, where architectural knowledge was transferred through direct experience, Ghost redefines the architect as a builder who cultivates and contributes to the quality of the native landscape.
  
Published to celebrate the event's tenth anniversary, Ghost offers a thorough documentation of the past decade’s design-build events including drawings, models, and final photographs of completed structures. Organized chronologically and interwoven with MacKay-Lyons’s simple and accessible personal narratives, Ghost also features essays by some of the most eminent figures in architectural criticism, including Christine Macy, Brian Carter, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Kenneth Frampton, Thomas Fisher, Juhani Pallasmaa, Peter Buchanan, and Robert McCarter. In an architectural climate full of trends and egos, Ghost is the rare manifesto that does not preach but rather inspires quietly with simple ideas that unexpectedly unsettle and arouse.

About the Author

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 Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons.