SkyRoom : The Journey of Brian And Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Possibility Paperback / softback
by Larry Gaudet
Paperback / softback
Description
As you crest the ridge, the green valley below and the ocean beyond come into view.
This is Shobac, a seaside village featuring an ensemble of buildings that, at first glance, looks like a monumental work of Land Art.
What is this place? A fishing village from the future? A monastery teleported here from another planet? A utopian colony with a message for the world? Shobac is recognised internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons.
In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, he has built a unique community over the granite ruins of a historic settlement on the fogbound coast of Nova Scotia, an area identified on Champlain's first map of North America from 1604.
Among the structures at Shobac are homes, barns, studios, cottages, fishing shacks, a boathouse, even a schoolhouse, all designed in Mackay-Lyons's compelling architectural language that fuses contemporary Modernism with Nova Scotia building traditions.
It's a sublime accomplishment that feels equally part of the past and the future, a living manifesto that expresses how landscape, climate, culture and architecture can ideally come together in elevating the human experience.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 65 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Oro Editions
- Publication Date:23/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781954081208
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 65 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Oro Editions
- Publication Date:23/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781954081208
