Larry Gaudet

(Author)

Skyroom: The Journey of Brian and Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian PoPaperback, 18 January 2022

Skyroom: The Journey of Brian and Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Po
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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Oro Editions
Date Published
18 Jan 2022
ISBN-10
1954081200
ISBN-13
9781954081208

Description

In SkyRoom, novelist Larry Gaudet tells the story of Shobac, a seaside village recognized 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. 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.

SkyRoom is written in a new genre that Gaudet calls magic architectural realism, blending fact with historical fiction in presenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to the Shobac area, including Samuel de Champlain, a Mi'kmaq mystic, an Acadian carpenter and other lively characters whose ghostly presence swirl in the untold myths of this coastal Shangri-La. More provocatively, Gaudet orchestrates imaginary conversations between Mackay-Lyons and legendary figures in architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore and others - all towards providing a novel perspective on what goes into building communities and homes worth living in.

Product Details

Author:
Larry Gaudet
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 January 2022
Dimensions:
22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1954081200
ISBN-13:
9781954081208
Language:
English
Location:
Novato, CA
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
521.63 gm

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