SkyRoom : the journey of Brian and Marilyn MacKay-Lyons at Shobac, a seaside village on the edge of architectural and utopian possibility / Larry Gaudet.

Main entry:

Gaudet, Larry, author.

Title & Author:

SkyRoom : the journey of Brian and Marilyn MacKay-Lyons at Shobac, a seaside village on the edge of architectural and utopian possibility / Larry Gaudet.

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

[Novato] : ORO Editions, [2021]

Description:

225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Procession -- SkyRoom I -- Mythic House -- SkyRoom II -- Ghost Stories -- Invisible Conversations -- SkyRoom III

Summary:

As you crest the ridge, the green valley below and the ocean beyond come into view. This is Shobac, a seaside village featuring an ensemble of buildings that, at first glance, looks like a monumental work of Land Art. What is this place? A fishing village from the future? A monastery teleported here from another planet? A utopian colony with a message for the world? Shobac is recognised internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons. In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, he has built a unique community over the granite ruins of a historic settlement on the fogbound coast of Nova Scotia, an area identified on Champlain's first map of North America from 1604. Among the structures at Shobac are homes, barns, studios, cottages, fishing shacks, a boathouse, even a schoolhouse, all designed in Mackay-Lyons's compelling architectural language that fuses contemporary Modernism with Nova Scotia building traditions. It's a sublime accomplishment that feels equally part of the past and the future, a living manifesto that expresses how landscape, climate, culture and architecture can ideally come together in elevating the human experience.

ISBN:

9781954081208 paperback
1954081200 paperback

Subject:

MacKay-Lyons, Brian.
MacKay-Lyons, Marilyn.
Architecture, Domestic Nova Scotia.
Seaside architecture Nova Scotia.
Architect-designed houses Nova Scotia.
Architecture littorale Nouvelle-Écosse.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Nouvelle-Écosse.
Architect-designed houses
Architecture, Domestic
Seaside architecture
Nova Scotia

Form/genre:

Fiction

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315088
Call No.: 315088
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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