Main entry:

MacKay-Lyons, Brian, author.

Title & Author:

Ghost : building an architectural vision / Brian MacKay-Lyons ; with texts by Peter Buchanan [and 8 others].

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2008]
©2008

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Ghost 1. Ghost Stories / by Christine Macy -- Hill -- Ghost 2. Concept and Construct/Earth and Sky / by Brian Carter -- Landfall -- Ghost 3. Expedition to the Coast of Nova Scotia / by Karl Habermann -- Pots and Pans -- Ghost 4. The Bones of Ghosts: Structuring the Ephemeral / by Robert Ivy -- Why Albert Oxner Shingled His Barn -- Ghost 5. On the Fringes of the Empire / by Kenneth Frampton -- Barnyard -- Ghost 6. Seeing Ghosts / by Thomas Fisher -- The Education of an Architect -- Ghost 7. The Dance of Construction / by Juhani Pallasmaa -- Village Architect -- Ghost 8. Escaping Normality to Embrace Reality / by Peter Buchanan -- Willing -- Ghost 9. The Thought of Construction / by Robert McCarter -- Listening.

Summary:

"In 1994 nine ambitious students joined architect and professor Brian MacKay-Lyons at his family farm on the coast of Nova Scotia, atop a nearly four-hundred-year-old stone ruin, to embark on a unique utopian architectural experiment. Housed in tents, without modern conveniences, and with little more than hammers and nails, the group inaugurated what would become an annual hands-on design-build project: the Ghost International Architectural Laboratory, better known as "Ghost Lab" or simply "Ghost."" "The Ghost projects inspire a generation of architects to reconnect architecture to the vernacular culture and craft traditions of the communities in which they live and build. Ultimately, Ghost allows architects and students to design beautiful buildings that stand "lightly on the land" and to envision and realize alternative ways of seeing and organizing the world." "Published to celebrate the event's tenth anniversary, Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision offers thorough documentation of the design-build events. Interwoven with MacKay-Lyons's meditations on place, culture, and history and ruminations on architecture, Ghost provides inspiration with simple ideas that unsettle and provoke. Past Ghost guest architects include Bob Benz, Marlon Blackwell, Wendell Burnette, Ted Flato, Rick Joy, and David Miller."-- Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781568987361 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1568987366 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ghost Lab.
Architecture Study and teaching (Internship) Nova Scotia.
Architecture Étude et enseignement (Stage) Nouvelle-Écosse.
Architecture Study and teaching (Internship)
Architektur
Experiment
Nova Scotia

Added entries:

Buchanan, Peter, contributor.
Carter, Brian, 1942- contributor.
Fisher, Thomas, 1953- contributor.
Frampton, Kenneth, contributor.
Habermann, Karl J., contributor.
Ivy, Robert Adams, contributor.
Macy, Christine, contributor.
McCarter, Robert, 1955- contributor.
Pallasmaa, Juhani, contributor.
Ghost (Symposium)

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 257636
Call No.: BIB 188164
Status: Available