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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).