Ghost

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568987361
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 192 pages
15,9 x 22,9 cm
colour/black & white
June 2008
€26,60 (excl. VAT)

Ghost

Building an Architectural Vision

Brian MacKay-Lyons

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.

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.