Main entry:

McCarter, Robert, 1955- author.

Title & Author:

The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects : economy as ethic / Robert McCarter.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.
©2017

Description:

415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
"With 750 illustrations, 480 in colour."
Includes bibliographical references.
An architecture of dialogue : lessons in architectural syntax / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Economy as ethic : critical practice and the cultivation of place / Robert McCarter -- Private houses -- Public architecture : place and occasion / Talbot Sweetapple -- Public places -- Origins / Brian MacKay-Lyons -- The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple / Kenneth Frampton -- Postscript : the wind, the moon -- Awards.
Library copy: Presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert from Brian Mackay-Lyons.

Summary:

The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects embodies two interrelated primary principles: economy and place. Economy as an ethical imperative leads to creating the 'maximal' experience with minimal form, material, and cost. Reinforcing this imperative is the architects' engagement of their place of practice, coastal Nova Scotia, and its climate, landform, and material culture. The practice has evolved plan types that allow the architects to engage the land and climate of their native Nova Scotia, and is also focused on the importance of the interior spatial experience. The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple is predicated on the belief that what really matters in architecture is not fashion and form but the material culture of building and the making of places. The result, evident in the more than two hundred projects featured in the book, is both practical and poetic.

ISBN:

9780500343319 (hardback)
0500343314 (hardback)

Subject:

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Nova Scotia.
Architects Nova Scotia.
Architecture, Domestic Canada 21st century.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Nouvelle-Écosse.
Architectes Nouvelle-Écosse.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Modern
Architecture Nova Scotia History 20th century
Architecture Nova Scotia History 21st century
Canada
Nova Scotia

Added entries:

MacKay-Lyons, Brian, architect, writer of supplementary textual content.
Sweetapple, Talbot, architect, writer of supplementary textual content.
Pallasmaa, Juhani, writer of supplementary textual content.
Frampton, Kenneth, writer of supplementary textual content.
Lambert, Phyllis former owner.
MacKay-Lyons, Brian donor.
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Works. Selections.

Economy as ethic

Holdings:

Location: Library main 303883
Call No.: BIB 240666
Status: Available