{"product_id":"against-the-grain-marcelo-spina-9781945150081","title":"Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship","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 clich s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945150084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945150081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale School of Architecture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.70h x 8.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Marcelo Spina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978914627839,"sku":"9781945150081","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dec53b5c-34e1-4a9a-88a8-6defb796339a.jpg?v=1683243540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-the-grain-marcelo-spina-9781945150081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}