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Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 07

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 07
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Marcelo Spina
By (author) Georgina Huljich
By (author) Dan Wood
SeriesLouis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 07
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 200
Category/GenreTheory of architecture
Architectural structure and design
Building construction and materials
ISBN/Barcode 9781945150081
Audience
General
Edition English ed.

Publishing Details

Publisher Actar Publishers
Imprint Actar Publishers
Publication Date 1 August 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 cliches 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.

Author Biography

Jackie Kow is a designer working in New York. Nina Rappaport is publications director at Yale School of Architecture.