Brian MacKay-Lyons
FRAIC, RCA, (Hon) FAIA, NSAA, AAPEI, OAA, VT, NH
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Ltd.
Lecture Title: Listening and Willing
Monday, October 3, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Simpson & Jacquin sponsored lecture
Brian MacKay-Lyons received his Bachelor
of Architecture from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1978 and
his Master of Architecture and Urban Design at U.C.L.A. In 1985, he
founded Brian MacKay-Lyons Architecture Urban Design, and twenty years
later, partnered with Talbot Sweetapple to form MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple
Architects Ltd. Houses designed in Atlantic Canada have made Brian a
leading proponent of regionalist architecture worldwide. This
recognition has led to a transition in the practice toward increased
public and international commissions. Brian is the Director of the Ghost
Architectural Laboratory and a full Professor of Architecture at
Dalhousie University.
“The architecture of Brian
Mackay-Lyons shows clarity in planning, resulting in forms that are
direct, simple, and elegant. The buildings are beautifully sited and
crafted. This is an honest, no-nonsense architecture that avoids the
fashions of the day. It exhibits that rare quality – authenticity.”
Glenn Murcutt, 2002 Pritzker Prize
Laureate
“Perhaps, despite our globalized
world, this is still the mythic stuff of which some kind of cultural
resistance may yet be enjoined.”
Kenneth Frampton, Architectural Historian
Plym
Auditorium