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Greg Lynn
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Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. University Professor in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. He is CEO and co-founder of the Boston based robotics company Piaggio Fast Forward. He won a Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture. In 2010 Lynn was named a fellow by United States Artists. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Lynn was born in North Olmsted, Ohio, and claims always to have wanted to be an architect. "When I was twelve, I could already construct perspective drawings and draw axonometric projections", says Lynn. "In high school, someone taught drafting and in the first day of class they saw that I could do all these constructed drawings. I started picking oddly-shaped objects like threaded cones and I would try to draw them in two-point perspective. I got into drawing as a kind of sport." Lynn graduated cum laude from Miami University in Ohio with degrees in architecture and philosophy and from Princeton University School of Architecture with a Master of Architecture. He is distinguished for his use of computer-aided design to produce irregular, biomorphic architectural forms, as he proposes that with the use of computers, calculus can be implemented into the generation of architectural expression. Lynn has written extensively on these ideas, first in 1993 as the editor of an Architectural Design special issue called "Folding in Architecture". In 1999, his book Animate FORM, funded in part by the Graham Foundation focused on the use of animation and motion graphic software for design. His book, Folds, Bodies & Blobs: Collected Essays, contains the republished essay from ANY magazine "Blobs, or Why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy" in which he coined the term "blob architecture" later to become "blobitecture" popularized in a New York Times Magazine article "On Language: Defenestration" by William Safire.
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