{"product_id":"9781945150081","title":"Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Actar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033877397744,"sku":"9781945150081","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945150081_p0.jpg?v=1763767592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945150081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}