http://www.egs.edu/ Greg Lynn, American architect, thinker, philosopher and science-fiction writer discussing and lecturing about the future of architecture, virtual design, the introduction of the calculus, mathematical systems, geometric organisation, composition, virtuality, media, virtual reality, design, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gilles Deleuze, architecture as an expression of philosophy, vision, and knowledge. Greg Lynn in a public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Lynn, born 1964, graduated cum laude from Miami University (OH) with degrees in Architecture and Philosophy, and Princeton University with a Master's of Architecture. He is distinguished for his use of computer-aided design to produce irregular, biomorphic architectural forms. Lynn has written extensively on his design philosophies, first publishing the book "Animate Form" in 1999, funded in part by the Graham Foundation. Lynn's New York Presbyterian Church in Queens, New York, with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf is an early project which used vector-based animation software in its design conception. He is credited with coining the term 'blob architecture' based on his work with a design software known by the acronym BLOB, meaning 'Binary Large Objects'. He was profiled by Time Magazine in their projection of 21st century innovators in the field of architecture and design. Lynn's latest works begin to explore how to integrate structure and form together as he discovered some biomorphic forms are inherently resistant to load. He is also one of the forerunners in exploring the possibilities in digital fabrication, in how to bring these complex forms into reality, in terms of constructability and economics. Lynn has taught at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, ETH Zurich, and Yale School of Architecture. He is currently a faculty member at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Architecture and Urban Design, and head of a master class design studio at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Prior to starting his own firm, Greg Lynn worked in the offices of Peter Eisenman and Antoine Predock. ‹a href="http://www.egs.edu/"›European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies department program‹/a›

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1. In "mentioning a final trait in the style of contemporary life whose rationalistic character clearly betrays the influence of money," writes Georg Simmel, "by and large, one may characterize the intellectual functions that are used at present in coping with the world and in regulating both individual and social relations as calculative functions."
2. Greg Lynn came to give a lecture at cal poly-SLO and I have to say, it was very funny and very inspiring. I think I had pulled an all nighter and the night before maybe got 2 hrs of sleep (he came at the very end of the quarter) and I was still awake through 1.5 out of his 2 hr lecture.
3. you are very welcome. please enjoy the other lectures as well. you might eventually like lebbeus woods - the complete lecture is on its way. we are a rather small school though so it might take some time. thank you.
4. ahhhhhhhhhh thanks! great! looking forward to hearing better quality. it is worth anyway!
5. thank you for the comment. i am listening to the expressions of youtube. the improved soundsystem - wireless sennheiser microphones - is already budgeted. the recording quality of the old lectures and archives will be difficult to improve though. thank you.
6. great! but how about introducing a halfway normal okay soundsystem? that is propably asking for the impossible european dream! thinking is necessary, so we will never get it!