Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons (New Voices in Architecture)

* Read * Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons (New Voices in Architecture) by Malcolm Quantrill, Kenneth Frampton ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons (New Voices in Architecture) No problem No problem. Striking Houses So much architecture these days is known primarily because it is the same general thing repeated endlessly. Sort of like the houses made of ticky-tacky in Daly City. Then once in a while you find a book like this one which features a series of buildings, that truly stand out.Located mostly in Nova Scotia, the architecture of Mr. MacKay-Lyons stands out as truly distinctive.. Plain Modern according to Ana Ullrich. In my oppinion Brian MacKay-Lyons is one o

Plain Modern: The Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons (New Voices in Architecture)

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Rating : 4.65 (503 Votes)
Asin : 1568984774
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 224 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-02-25
Language : English

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No problem No problem. Striking Houses So much architecture these days is known primarily because it is the same general thing repeated endlessly. Sort of like the houses made of ticky-tacky in Daly City. Then once in a while you find a book like this one which features a series of buildings, that truly stand out.Located mostly in Nova Scotia, the architecture of Mr. MacKay-Lyons stands out as truly distinctive.. "Plain Modern" according to Ana Ullrich. In my oppinion Brian MacKay-Lyons is one of the most exciting contemporary architects, showing extreme feeling for detail, form, material and nature surroundings. He deserves maybe a better photo presentation?

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. 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. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the area’s fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. 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. 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

as concise, lucid and anchored in a sense of place as homes and public structures MacKay-Lyons' become known for. -- Architectural Record, April 2007. MacKay-Lyons's project descriptions are as plain, direct, and appealing as his buildings. -- Azure, Jan/Feb 2006radiates a sense of timelessness so elusive in today's world -- Dwell, September/October 2005MacKay-Lyons has erected a legacy of plain Modern houses informed by local vernacular forms, building materials, and conventions

. Malcolm Quantrill is a distinguished professor of architecture at Texas A & M University, in College Station, Texas

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