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Greg Lynn

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Greg Lynn is an American architect, designer, and writer born on January 1, 1964, in North Olmsted.

Lynn was educated at Miami University before continuing his studies at the Princeton University School of Architecture. In addition to his work as an architect, designer, and writer, he has served as a university teacher, extending his professional activities into an academic setting.

Lynn conducts his work in English across the three fields of architecture, design, and writing, a combination that places him in both practice and written discourse. His roles as architect, designer, and writer define the range of his professional activity.

Quotes by Greg Lynn

It’s tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
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It’s tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
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I always try to think in curves.
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I always try to think in curves.
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#thinking
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
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It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
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#motivation
To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.
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To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.
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A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
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A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
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#looks
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
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It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
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#architect
It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.
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It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.
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#design
The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.
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The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.
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#clothes
It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.
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It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.
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#exciting
Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.
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Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.
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#calculated
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