11/12/2022 0 Comments Animate form greg lynn![]() ![]() SCI-Arc All School Exhibition + UCLA Awards Day UCLA’s end of year show “RUMBLE” today and tomorrow ![]() Jason Payne / Hirsuta, "Rawhide: The New Shingle Style" at SCI-Arc I would have liked to hear more about the work his studio at UCLA is doing – it sounded very exciting when he presented it at the beginning of the year – students are apparently looking at carbon fiber sailboat production techniques and how to apply them to the architecture of the boat factories. Notable updates included some progress on the Wilshire project, and actually hearing Lynn say something like “the Blob Wall at SCI-Arc collapsed the day after the opening”. This one was much more book-heavy than the SCI-Arc talk (perhaps slightly appropriate considering the differences between the priorities of UCLA and SCI-Arc's curriculum), but all the same projects were discussed. It was a good, engaging talk, but for me it wasn't so exciting as I had seen almost exactly the same content at his last talk at SCI-Arc. Okay, so he said more about the new book, but what else do you need to know than that Greg Lynn thinks that pop culture comes from Ohio? As a footnote, Lynn ended his talk by going over some of the projects he's working on now, including a restaurant design on Wilshire, and furniture made with childrens' plastic toys joined using the same techniques as used in the Blob Wall. It “captures what makes architecture architecture” - that the “expression of component with the whole is unique to architecture” and doesn't appear in other fields. “I'm deeply embarrassed by Animate Form.” ![]() It was “too focused on vocational aspects” of architecture. “I didn't know it, but everything I'm doing now I was doing then … I haven't had a new idea since.” I'll give you a sense of each book project from Greg Lynn soundbites (and I'm probably misquoting, so consider these illustrative rather than direct quotes): ![]() It looks very nice though – much more balanced and well rounded than his previous efforts. I did not end up buying the new book at $55 it seemed a bit too much of a strain on my alarmingly dwindling student loan pile. Greg Lynn gave what he called a “book talk” - he went through the books he's had published so far, from Animate Form to Intricacy to the new 'non-monograph monograph' Greg Lynn Form. ![]()
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