Ghost Building an Architectural Vision

Name: Ghost Building an Architectural Vision
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ISBN: 9781568987361

ISBN-10: 1568987366

ISBN-13: 9781568987361

Edition: 2008

Authors: Brian Mackay-Lyons, Peter Buchanan, Brian Carter, Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Frampton

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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 projecta "one week of design and one-week of constructiona "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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 5/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Brian MacKay-Lyons is principal of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects and a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia



Preface



Ghost Stories



Hill



Concept and Construct/Earth and Sky



Landfall



Expedition to the Coast of Nova Scotia



Pots and Pans



The Bones of Ghosts: Structuring the Ephemeral



Why Albert Oxner Shingled His Barn



On the Fringes of the Empire



Barnyard



Seeing Ghosts



The Education of an Architect



The Dance of Construction



Village Architect



Escaping Normality to Embrace Reality



Willing



The Thought of Construction



Listening


Contributor Biographies


Ghost Participants


Image Credits


Acknowledgments