Photo by Cherish Rosas

Brian MacKay-Lyons is the founding partner of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, a professor at Dalhousie University, and the founder of Ghost Lab – the now legendary 2-week summer design/build program that took place on his family farm in Nova Scotia from 1994 to 2011. While relentlessly local, Brian’s work has been recognized internationally with more than 100 awards, 300 publications, and 100 exhibitions. In 2012, the American Institute of Architects recognized the collective work and influence of Ghost with an Institute Honor Award for Architecture. Jurors, including Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer & Partners and Kristen Murray of Olson Kundig Architects said of Ghost: 

“This project reveals itself as more than just a grouping of buildings; it is a physical experiment in education as well as an act of will to preserve the serene beauty in the landscape. As a teaching tool, the students find themselves immersed in an environment where they are challenged to produce high quality designs they can self-construct. This project is truly more than the sum of its parts; it is a wonderful resolution of materials, details, landscape, and learning.”

On August 22nd, 2014 Brian hopped off his tractor and wiped the diesel fuel off his hands to discuss architectural education with Keith and Marie Zawistowski, co-founders of thedesign/buildLAB at Virginia Tech and partners of OnSite Architecture.....Continue Reading

Ghost Lab Campus – Photo by Brian MacKay-Lyons

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