Greg Lynn

Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, a Full Professor at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna[1] and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

[13] The 2008 book Greg Lynn FORM, edited with Mark Rappolt, includes contributions by his colleagues, collaborators and critics including Ross Lovegrove, Jeffrey Kipnis, Chris Bangle, Sylvia Lavin, Imaginary Forces, Peter Schröder, Bruce Sterling, J. G. Ballard, Brian Goodwin and Ari Marcopoulos.

[14] He was one of the earliest teachers to explore the use of the digital technology for building design and construction when he was teaching "Paperless Studios" with Hani Rashid and Stan Allen while Bernard Tschumi was dean of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1992 to 1999.

He often experiments with methods of manufacturing from the aerospace, boat building and automobile industries in his installations such as Swarovski crystal sails[17] and HSBC Designers Lounge for 2009 Design Miami, Bubbles in the Wine installation at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, 1999 The Predator at Wexner Center for the Arts with Fabian Marcaccio, 2002 Expanding the Gap installation at Eigelstein 115 (Martin Rendel and René Spitz) with Ross Lovegrove and Tokujin Yoshioka, and in his industrial design projects like the super formed titanium Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers of 2003 and the Vitra Ravioli Chair.

[21] The Bloom House includes curvaceous interior elements and windows, built in plastics, fiberglass and wood all using this software and CNC controlled machines for its fabrication.