Greg Lynn is the principal of Greg Lynn FORM and has taught throughout the United States and Europe. Because of his early combination of degrees in philosophy and architecture he has been involved in combining the realities of design and construction with the speculative, theoretical and experimental potentials of writing and teaching. He has taught and lectured around the world as the Professor of Spatial Conception and Exploration at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University. In the fall of 2002 he became an o. Univ. Professor at the "angewandte" in Vienna, Austria. In addition, he is a Studio Professor at UCLA in Los Angeles and the Davenport Professor at Yale University.

His architectural designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums including the 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture where his work was represented in the U.S., Austrian and Italian Pavilions. Time Magazine named him one of 100 Innovators for the Next Century in 2001. He writes and lectures widely on architectural design and theory. He is the author of Intricacy (ICA, Philadelphia), Architectural Laboratories (NAI, Rotterdam), Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays (La Lettre Volée, Brussells), Animate Form (Princeton Architectural Press, New York) and the forthcoming Predator (Wexner Center, Columbus, OH) and Embryological House (also by Princeton Architectural Press).

Greg Lynn Form - the Book

Greg Lynn has defined how designers and architects use computers as a medium, operating in an expanded field that fuses cutting-edge technology, contemporary art, and science fiction aesthetics with architectural form. At the epicenter of a debate about the role of digital design in architecture and design, his projects skillfully blend high technology and detailed craftsmanship, driven by modeling software from the film and aerospace industries. Included are contributions from theorists, architects, and artists, and futurists such as Sylvia Lavin, Ben van Berkel, and Caroline Bos of UN Studio, J.G. Ballard, and Tom Friedman, among others.  Rather than a retrospective of Lynn's career, it is thought-provoking and forward-looking.

Recycled Toy Furniture

Children’s toys are three-dimensionally scanned and composed in design modeling software into tables, shelves, wardrobes, closets, benches, walls and interior enclosures. The intersections between these brick like toys are defined as curves that are used to program the tool paths that control the motion of an articulated robotic cutting arm. Once cut, no two toys are the same. The trimmed elements are fit together and welded into free standing, self-supporting objects of day to day use. This show was exhibited in August 2008 at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky It won the Golden Lion for the Best Installation Project in the International Exhibition.

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