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

Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. KahnVisiting Assistant Professors at Yale.Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in "Brutal Beauty: Piles, Monolithsand the Incongruous Whole" explored ways to make mute icons throughmonolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their contextand difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. DanWood in "Boulevard Triumphant: ecological infrastructure, architecture,modernization, and the image of the city" a studio for a civic centerin Gabon that challenged the architectural language in Africa beyondthe clichés and nostalgia to create an architecture that embodied a newambition. Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi in "Timber Innovation District:new timber technologies and contemporary high performance woodarchitecture" researched wood as a material for larger-scale projects for a siteon New Haven's working waterfront, with projects ranging from bridges tomanufacturing facilities and multi-family housing.