Plain modern : the architecture of Brian Mackay-Lyons. / txt
Malcolm Quantrill ; with contributions by Glenn Murcutt and Kenneth Frampton ; and project texts by Brian MacKay-Lyons.
- 1st edition
- 223 p. ill.; col.; plans.; 25 cm. book
- New voices in architecture .
Foreword Glenn Murcutt -- Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons Malcolm Quantrill -- RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS Brian MacKay-Lyons -- Barn House (1996-98) -- House on the Nova Scotia Coast No. 12 (1995-97) -- Danielson House (1996-98) -- House on the Nova Scotia Coast No. 22 (1997-98) -- Kutcher House (1997-98) -- Howard House (1995-99) -- Messenger House II (2001-03) -- Hill House (2002-04) -- GHOST LABORATORY Brian MacKay-Lyons -- Ghost Laboratory I-VI (1994-2004) -- On the Fringes of Empire Kenneth Frampton -- PUBLIC WORKS Brian MacKay-Lyons -- Faculty of Architecture Extension, Dalhousie University (1991-93) -- Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (1998-99) -- Academic Resource Centre, University of Toronto at Scarborough (2001-03) -- Ship's Company Theatre (2001-04) -- Office for MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects (2002-03) -- Canadian High Commission, Dhaka (2002-05) --
Brian MacKay-Lyons is an architect in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His residential and public commissions around the world have earned him nearly 60 awards, including five Governor General's Medals. MacKay-Lyons is a man who resists the homogeneity of globalization; instead, the plain, modern architecture he's created reflects the rugged coastline and beautiful landscape of Nova Scotia. This new monograph profiles MacKay-Lyons and his work, presenting in-depth documentation of 13 buildings, including residential, commercial and institutional selections. It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, andMiller/Hull in the Northwest.
Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA.Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the areas fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality.
Novelist and historian Malcolm Quantrill weaves together an intimate portrait of MacKay-Lyons and his work, elucidating the "peculiar regionality" of his subject's architecture.
A New Voices monograph published with The Graham Foundation.