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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.

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