Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship

Spina, Marcelo; Huljich, Georgina; Wood, Dan; Gray, Lisa; Organschi, Alan

ISBN 10: 1945150084 / ISBN 13: 9781945150081

Published by Yale School of Architecture, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship
• Publisher: Yale School of Architecture
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1945150084
• ISBN 13: 9781945150081
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in “Brutal Beauty: Piles, Monoliths and the Incongruous Whole” explored ways to make mute icons through monolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their context and difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. Dan Wood in “Boulevard Triumphant: ecological infrastructure, architecture, modernization, and the image of the city” a studio for a civic center in Gabon that challenged the architectural language in Africa beyond the clichés and nostalgia to create an architecture that embodied a new ambition. Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi in “Timber Innovation District: new timber technologies and contemporary high performance wood architecture” researched wood as a material for larger-scale projects for a site on New Haven’s working waterfront, with projects ranging from bridges to manufacturing facilities and multi-family housing. Edited by Jackie Kow and Nina Rappaport the book is designed by MGMT.design and is distributed by Actar D.

About the Authors

Jackie Kow is a designer working in New York.

Nina Rappaport is publications director at Yale School of Architecture.