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Ghost Mission

The Ghost Architectural Laboratory is the research facility of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited. It is an education initiative designed to promote the transfer of architectural knowledge through direct experience - project based learning taught in the master-builder tradition - with emphasis on issues of landscape, material culture, and community.

Ghost Program

The Ghost Lab provides a two-week summer design/build internship (one week design, one week build) for architects, professors and students, directed by Brian MacKay-Lyons. The program takes place on the coast of Nova Scotia, Atop the stone ruins of a nearly 400 year old village on the MacKay-Lyons farm. Projects are seen as didactic instruments to interpret cultural ecology and build on the research experience of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects and the framing and shipbuilding traditions of the area. For more information, visit http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/ghost/