Greg Lynn
Biography:
Greg Lynn, born 1964 in Ohio, USA, studied architecture and philosophy at Miami University of Ohio before earning a graduate degree in architecture at Princeton University.
He worked in the offices of Antoine Predock and Peter Eisenmann between 1987-1991.
In 1994 he founded the independent office Greg Lynn FORM in Hoboken, New Jersey, relocating it to Venice, California, in 1998.
Projects and publications by Greg Lynn have made a key contribution to the understanding of the computer not merely as a efficient calculating tool, but as something that holds great and largely unexplored potential for the design process itself.
Lynn held a professorship for urban planning and research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) from 1999-2002, and has served as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2002. He has also been a guest lecturer at Yale University's Graduate School of Architecture (New Haven, CT) and at the University of California's Graduate School of Architecture in Los Angeles (UCLA).
Today Greg Lynn is considered to be one of the most prominent exponents of so-called Blob architecture, which is characterized by a biomorphic formal idiom.
Projects:
Exhibitions (selection):
- 2007 "Design Life Now", The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- 2007 "Nature Design", Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
- 2007 "Second Skin", ENTRY 2006/Zeche Zollverein, Essen
- 2007 "MyHome", Vitra Design Museum, Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
- 2007 "Skin + Bones, Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- 2007 "Art and Architecture", Los Angeles
- 2006 "The World in One City: A Sketch for London", London Biennial, London
- 2006 "Present Day", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
- 2005 "On the Boards, the Screens and the Robots: Greg Lynn FORM Work in Process, Bloom House, Slavin House and Vitra Chair", exhibition of prototypes at the UCLA Department of Architecture, Los Angeles
- 2005 Preview of the Ravioli Chair by Vitra, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan
- 2005 The Architecture and Design Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2004 "Die Algorithmische Revolution", Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
- 2004 "Metamorph", Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice
- 2004 Beijing Architecture Biennial, Avant-Garde Pavilion, Beijing
- 2004 "Tall Buildings: The United Architects’ proposal for the Ground Zero Site Design Competition", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2004 "Non Standard Architecture", Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 2003 "The Art of Design", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 2003 "Visions and Utopias", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
- 2003 "The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century", Columbia University, New York
- 2003 "Intricacy", Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia
- 2002 "A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals", American Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
- 2002 Pinakothek der Moderne: "Ark of the World", Opening exhibition of the Architekturmuseum at the Technische Universität München, Munich
- 2001 "Digital Real: Blobmeister, erste gebaute Projekte", Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt
- 2001 "Folds, Blobs + Boxes", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
- 2001 "Workspheres", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2000 "The Future and the City", 5th International Festival for Architecture on Video, Florence
- 2000 "Architectural Laboratories" with Hani Rashid, The United States Pavilion, 7° Biennale d'architettura di Venezia, Venice
- 2000 National Design Triennial: "Design Culture Now", Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York
- 1999 "Strategic Space: Urbanismus im 21. Jahrhundert", Internationales Design Forum, Ulm
- 1999 Archi-Lab Exhibition, F.R.A.C., Orléans
- 1998 "Shock of the View", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 1998 "Cities on the Move", Sezessionsmuseum, Vienna
- 1998 "Body Mécanique: Artistic Explorations of Digital Realms", Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
- 1997 "Virtual Architecture Exhibition", group exhibit with Arata Isozaki, Kazuyo Sejima, Kisyo Kurokawa, Toyo Ito, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Jacques Herzog and William Mitchell, Tokyo
- 1996 "Electra ’96, Project for Elektroniske Medier", Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
- 1994 Cardiff Bay Opera House Exhibition, Architectural Association, London
- 1992 "Stranded Sears Tower", Gallery 400, Chicago
Publications:
Since 1993 Greg Lynn has published several books on cultural and architectural theory, including Intricacy (2003), Animate Form (1998), Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays (1998), Folding in Architecture (1993).
