Greg Lynn Form, Los Angeles / www.glform.com
Having pioneered the use of advanced, time-based and computerised design techniques in architecture in the 1990s, Greg Lynn is one of the most influential architects and theorists over the last 20 years. He is a leading pioneer at the intersection of computing, design and architecture, and his architectural designs have been exhibited internationally at both architecture and art venues, including the 2000 Venice Biennale where he represented the United States in the American Pavilion, and at the Venice 11th International Architecture Exhibition in 2008 for which he was awarded the Golden Lion.
Lynn’s work spans from large scale building proposals, for instance his Korean Presbyterian Church in New York (1999), to his ‘Tea & Coffee Towers,’ an ensemble of mass-produced one-of-a-kind objects for Alessi. The work is frequently accompanied by a profoundly researched and speculative theoretical position, and his more recent collaborations with Bill Pearson has seen Lynn return to questions of modular assemblies and architectural tectonics versus heterogeneously articulated continuity in composite membrane surfaces.
His work is in the permanent collections of CCA, SFMoMA, and MoMA and has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Fondation Beyeler, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, MAK, MoCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Carnegie Museum of Art, ICA and Secession Museum, among other venues.
Lynn, who founded the firm Greg Lynn FORM in 1994, holds degrees in architecture and philosophy and received an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He was the Professor of Spatial Conception and Exploration at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) and in 2002 became an Ordentlicher University Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He is a tenured Professor at UCLA’s School of Architecture and Urban Design where he is currently spearheading the development of an experimental research robotics lab. In addition, he is the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University. He has visited SAC on several occasions and was the Dean's Honorary Lecturer in 2008.
In 2001, Time magazine named Greg Lynn one of 100 of the most innovative people in the world for the 21st century. In 2003, he received an Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2005, Forbes magazine named him one of the ten most influential living architects. In 2010, he was awarded a fellowship from United States Artists. Lynn has received numerous AIA and Progressive Architecture professional awards, and his Korean Presbyterian Church in New York was officially listed by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission as one of the 30 most important buildings built in the city in the last 30 years.
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Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule Architecture Class(SAC)
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