Greg Lynn, On Non-Orientability: From Moebius Strip to Klein Bottle, c. 2002
United Architects (FOA, UN Studio, Greg Lynn Form, Imaginary Forces, Kevin Kennon, and Reiser + Umemoto), Site Proposal for the New World Trade Center, Manhattan, NY, c. 2003
The computer has become an opportunistic gadget for most of the profession. The personal intervention, the brain that transforms it into art, is needed to get beyond the recognizable language of the computer program.
Frank Gehry, "Interview with Greg Lynn on Digital Architecture," 2013 (via forbes)
Charlotte Birnbaum, "The Watchtower" from The Beauty of the Fold, 2012 (via NicolaTwilley)
Including this "Watchtower" from the "Obelisk" group, Birnbaum has identified nine families of folding napkins:
- Blintzes
- Caps
- Fans
- Layers
- Lilies
- Obelisks
- Rolls
- Sachets
- Twins
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Architecture is by definition the study and representation of statics. Architecture of the city must however embrace motion; classical models of pure static (essentially timeless) form and structure are no longer adequate.
Greg Lynn, Transportable Environments, 1997
AD Magazine: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (Vol. 63, No. 3-4, 1993)
- Peter Eisenman, Emory University Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, Cover of AD Vol. 63, No. 3-4 (1993)
- Henry Cobb, Allied Bank Tower, Dallas, TX (1986)
- Peter Eisenman, Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, OH (1989-93)
- Bernard Tschumi, National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Le Fresnoy, France (1991-7)
- Rene Thom and Greg Lynn, Catastrophe Diagram (1990)
- Shoei Yoh, Odawara Municipal Sports Complex Proposal (1991)
- Greg Lynn, Reimagined Sears Tower Project (1992)
- Bahram Shirdel, Nara Convention Hall Proposal (1992)
- Jeff Kipnis and Bahram Shirdel, Scottish National Museum Proposal (1992)
- Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson, Peter Lewis Residence Proposal (1992)
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Cited by GA Tech Professor Mario Carpo as the first significant work to investigate Digital Design in architecture, and has influenced architectural discourse ever since its publishing. Containing a range of excellent essays from Kenneth Powell, Greg Lynn, Gilles Deleuze, Peter Eisenman, Jeff Kipnis, Bahram Shirdel, Chuck Hoberman, etc., this volume fully explores the 1990s fascination with folding as a movement away from the Deconstructivist movement of the 1980s. The interest in this architectural modeling derived itself from the translation of Deleuze's Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque (1988) into English (1993), whereupon Eisenman and several other prudent individuals began to explore how this philosophical idea could be translated into an architecture. Out of the wealth of knowledge I absorbed from this text, perhaps the most interesting segment occurred in Kipnis' essay entitled "Towards a New Architecture," where he reinterprets the critique of post-modernism by "the neo-modern social theorist Roverto Mangeiberra Unger" as a reinvented Le Corbusier's "5 Points" as a "5 Points of Folding." The two sets are contrasted as follows:
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Corbusier's High Modernism
- Les pilotis
- Le façade libre
- Le plan libre
- La fenêtre-bandeau
- Le toit terrasse
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Unger/Kipnis' InFormation/DeFormation
- Vastness
- Blankness
- Pointing
- Incongruity
- Intensive Coherence
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nickkahler reblogged
Smooth Heterogeneity in Sedimentary Rock (via coulombic: theworldwelivein)
Recalls Greg Lynn's "Folding in Architecture" in AD (1993) with its viscosity, pliancy, smoothness, and heterogeneity of form in space
Source: Flickr / coulombic