Design New England - September/October 2011

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through October 15) in which a dozen archi-
tects participated. All had either worked with
Edward Larrabee Barnes, among them James
Carpenter, Bruce S. Fowle, and Toshiko
Mori, or were, like Wilson herself, influenced
by him. “Everything there speaks about the
power of architecture to transform and trans-
port,” says Wilson of Haystack. “To be on
that decking is incredibly special. You’re out-
of-doors but in architecture. Haystack is a
constructed landscape.”
Maine metalsmith Tim McCreight has
taught at Haystack, served on its board, and
designed and published Vision & Legacy:
Celebrating the Architecture of Haystack (see
sidebar below). He believes that Barnes’s
uninsulated, seasonal buildings with exposed
structures inform the Haystack experience.

“The overwhelming perception,” McCreight says, “is how the parts go together. It’s in your face. And that’s what we’re there for — to put parts together. It’s an example. You’re there to build things. The mystery of those buildings is that they disappear, yet the reverse is also true. They are so fragile and yet so forceful.”

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In Print

As part of Haystack’s “Architecture: Vision & Legacy” exhibition at the campus Center for Community Programs, on view through September 11 and by appointment from September 12 through October 15, the school has published with Brynmorgen Press of Falmouth, Maine, Vision & Legacy: Celebrating the Architecture of Haystack. The hardcover book is a collection of essays and photographs about the award-winning campus. $30, available for purchase at the exhibit, as well as online at haystack-mtn.org.