Design Quarterly articles from June 1995

Design Quarterly archives from June 1995

Arcadia. (village in Nova Scotia)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... Arcadia is a village of about 400 people at the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia, where the Bay of Fundy meets the Atlantic. Places called Canaan, Egypt, or Paradise are not far away. Arcadia is a river village where the fresh water and its upland...

Boat. (influence of boats in architecture)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... Outside of the culture of large cities, the high art and craft of Nova Scotia have been connected to boat building. On the rhythm of the seasons, most of the ships, carpenters were the builders of the villages and towns. As a result the quality...

Shed. (influence of sheds on design of homes)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... In Nova Scotia simple primary forms are perched on the land like brightly colored dice, or their thin skins join to make a good urban fabric. If the idea of culture in my work resides largely in the domain of building practices, then the...

Barn. (influence of barns on home design)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... My neighbour Albert would often say of an evening: `Brian, come down and sit a piece, and we'll yarn a bit.' One evening not long before this village elder died he told me the story of why he and his father decided to shingle his barn. `.... ..

Ghost. (reconstruction of a ghost village)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... In 1604 the French explorer Samuel de Champlain took refuge in the river estuary that he named LaHave (The Haven). He mapped at that time a European-style house on what would eventually become our ,Ghost, site. Shortly afterward LaHave became the...

Life. (architect occupies his time in buildings he designed)(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... The human urge to build is a fundamentally optimistic act. Architects have no business with cynicism, pessimism, or distopias. We are in the business of optimism. By the daily plying of our trade, we can project a view of a better world. This has...

Village.(Seven Stories From A Village Architect)
June 22, 1995... A grassroots view of architectural history that is built upon the house, rather than a trickle-down view which is based on the monuments, is fundamentally democratic. The house, from an anthropological perspective, is by definition also the...