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Architecture at a threshold: three houses by Brian MacKay-Lyons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

Brian Carter
Brian Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Architecture, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2069, USA; [email protected]
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Abstract

Brian MacKay-Lyons has evolved an architecture out of the vernacular of his native Nova Scotia that combines simplicity of form and construction with a subtlety of placing a house on its site. In three recent houses, the expansiveness of the structures has increased and the landscape has become more integrated with the interiors, physically and visually. Both extremely rational and highly idiosyncratic, MacKay-Lyons' work shows how rootedness in a place, however geographically isolated, can result in architecture as rigorous as that produced anywhere.

Type
design
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 39 - 52
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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