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Book Greg Lynn FORM

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Rappolt
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Greg Lynn FORM written by Mark Rappolt and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most provocative and exciting architects today, Greg Lynn has defined how designers and architects use computers as a medium, operating in an expanded field that fuses cutting-edge technology, contemporary art, and science fiction aesthetics with architectural form. At the epicenter of a debate about the role of digital design and new fabrication methods in architecture and general design culture, his projects skillfully blend high technology and detailed craftsmanship, driven by modeling software from the film and aerospace industries. They range from the Ravioli lounge chair for Vitra to the Embryological House, a pre-fab housing type that takes advantage of new manufacturing technologies to produce customized houses adaptable to local conditions. Included are contributions from theorists, architects, and artists, and futurists such as Sylvia Lavin, Ben van Berkel, and Caroline Bos of UN Studio, J.G. Ballard, and Tom Friedman, among others. Greg Lynn FORM offers a window into Lynn's methods and techniques, theoretical positions, and career trajectory. Rather than a retrospective of Lynn's career, it is thought-provoking and forward-looking.

Book Animate Form

Download or read book Animate Form written by Greg Lynn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folding in Architecture

Download or read book Folding in Architecture written by Greg Lynn and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal book from Architectural Design was originally published in 1993, at a time of crucial change and on the eve of the digital revolution. It brought together a series of essays that many believe created the favourable environment in which computer-based design could thrive. Considered one of the most influential architecture publications of the 1990s, this book ranks as a classic and in itself is a crucial chapter of history, though one that has been out of print since 1999. This faithful reprinting includes a substantial new introductory essay by Mario Carpo, Head of the Study Centre at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which examines the impact of the original texts and their ongoing significance. Thereafter, the book is true to its original content showcasing projects by ground-breaking architects such as Greg Lynn, Jeffrey Kipnis, Bahram Shirdel, Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson.

Book Visual Catalog  Greg Lynn s Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Download or read book Visual Catalog Greg Lynn s Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna written by Kristy Balliet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristy Balliet and Brennan Buck are architects and have both worked as assistants to Greg Lynn. This is their ‘visual catalog’ of the Lynn Studio’s work over the last five years. It is a project-based visual catalog of design innovations that were created with Lynn’s students. Each chapter describes an exactly defined formal, aesthetic or atmospheric building block and its cultural context. The descriptions comprise introductions, reference images, theoretical contributions and the student’s projects for the studio. The Visual Catalog offers a unique insight into Greg Lynn’s design and teaching practice. Since the 1990s, Lynn has been considered the pioneer of a new generation of architects whose primary tool are computers. Going against the trend towards reduced, minimalist renderings in current architecture publications, the Studio Lynn Visual Catalog is a high-gloss monograph overflowing with graphical material that can be understood as an inspiring manual for students and practicing architects.

Book Architectural Laboratories

Download or read book Architectural Laboratories written by Greg Lynn and published by Nai Uitgevers Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Max Hollein, Greg Lynn, Hani Rashid, Mark Taylor and Peter Weibel.

Book Embracing the Journey

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg McDonald
  • Publisher : Howard Books
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 1982102349
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Embracing the Journey written by Greg McDonald and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sympathetic, compassionate, and inspiring guide for parents—from the founders of one of the first Christian ministries for parents of LGBTQ children. Greg and Lynn McDonald had never interacted with members of the LGBTQ community until they discovered that their son was gay. Without resources or support, they had no idea how to come to terms with this discovery. At first they tried to “fix” him, to no avail. But even in the earliest days of their journey, the McDonalds clung to two absolutes: they would love God, and they would love their son. “An essential resource for Christian parents of LGBTQ kids,” (Matthew Vines, Executive Director of The Reformation Project) this book follows the McDonald family’s journey over the next twenty years, from a place of grief to a place of gratitude and acceptance that led the McDonalds to start one of the first Christian ministries for parents of LGBTQ children. Based on their experience from counseling and coaching hundreds of struggling Christian parents, they offer tools for understanding your own emotional patterns and spiritual challenges. They also help you experience a deeper relationship with God while handling difficult or unexpected situations that are out of your control. You will discover tested principles, patterns, and spiritual lessons that can change the way we all see our families, and help Christians at large think through Christ-like ways to respond to the LGBTQ community. Written in an unvarnished, honest, reassuring, and relatable voice, this is a practical guide for parents and a roadmap to learning to love God, the people He created, and the church, even when they seem to be at odds.

Book Folds  Bodies   Blobs

Download or read book Folds Bodies Blobs written by Greg Lynn and published by La lettre volée. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sympathy of Things

Download or read book Sympathy of Things written by Lars Spuybroek and published by V2_ publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have to find our way back to beauty," writes Lars Spuybroek in the introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this book Spuybroek argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century - the age in which the sublime turned from an art category into a technical reality. This leads him to the aesthetical insights of the nineteenth-century English art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for our time. In The Sympathy of Things, the old romantic notion of sympathy, a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, is re-evaluated as the driving force of the aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century. Spuybroek addresses the five central dual themes of Ruskin in turn: the Gothic and work, ornament and matter, sympathy and abstraction, the picturesque and time, ecology and design. He wrests each of these themes from the Victorian era and compares them with the related ideas of later aestheticians and philosophers like William James and Bruno Latour.

Book Composites  Surfaces  and Software

Download or read book Composites Surfaces and Software written by Mark Gage and published by Yale School of Architecture Bo. This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boat, airplane, and automobile design tools and software are now applied to architectural projects using robotics and high-strength, low-weight, carbon fiber composites. Greg Lynn's studio and Mark Foster Gage's seminar at Yale—with participants Frank Gehry, Lise Ann Couture, Chris Bangle, and Greg Foley, among others—generated a lively dialogue invigorating the future of design.

Book Rethinking Representations

Download or read book Rethinking Representations written by Penelope Dean and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Climbing Free

Download or read book Climbing Free written by Lynn Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hill describes her famous climb and meditates on how she harnesses the strength and courage to push herself to such extremes.

Book Skin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Lupton
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2007-06-14
  • ISBN : 9781568987118
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Skin written by Ellen Lupton and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution from May to September 2002 illustrates designs relating to coverings that resemble, in some way or another human skin. Organics, artificial and digital skin, vessels and membranes, padding and protection, and warps and folds are among the dimensions explored. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Book The Ultimate Violation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurtess Lief Scone
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2012-06-14
  • ISBN : 1475907060
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Ultimate Violation written by Kurtess Lief Scone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the right hands, cosmetic or plastic surgery can become a work of beauty and a tremendous boost to a person’s self-esteem. In the wrong hands, cosmetic surgery can become a powerful force to destroy one’s self-esteem and any trace of confidence a person may have in the very core of his or her soul. In The Ultimate Violation, author Kurtess Lief Scone tells the story of his life—his time suffering from rickets as a young boy; his adolescence; the role his relationship to Jesus Christ has played in his life; and his adulthood, during which, disliking his facial appearance, he underwent plastic surgery. In this memoir, he discusses the malpractice of his surgeon and being forced to deal with the negative consequences followed by mental and emotional issues related to abnormal cosmetic changes. Scone provides tools and strategies to help others find the right cosmetic surgeon. The Ultimate Violation details Scone’s journey to seek justice and overcome the embarrassment, shame, and humiliation he experienced at the hands of an unethical surgeon.

Book Material Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Schröpfer
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2012-12-13
  • ISBN : 3034611668
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Material Design written by Thomas Schröpfer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach of "Informing Architecture by Materiality" opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening. The featured design strategies and methods address established and "new" materials alike. They are applied both to the scale of the detail and the entire building. The examples comprise prototype structures as well as large building projects. Eight chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and juctions, weaving and texturing, nanoscale transformations, responsiveness, the integration of ephemeral factors like wind and light as well as material collections providing professional resources. Written by renowned experts in this field, the book features many examples from international contemporary architecture. The introductory part provides the conceptual background, while a final chapter describes consequences for pressing issues of today, like sustainability or life cycle assessment.

Book Space Architecture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil Leach
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-01-12
  • ISBN : 1118663306
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Space Architecture written by Neil Leach and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years on from the first moon landing, architecture in Space is entering a new era. Over the last decade, there has been a fundamental shift in the Space industry from short-term pioneering expeditions to long-term planning for colonisation, and new ventures such as Space tourism. Architects are now involved in designing the interiors of long-term habitable structures in Space, such as the International Space Station, researching advanced robotic fabrication technologies for building structures on the Moon and Mars, envisioning new 'space yachts' for the super-rich, and building new facilities, such as the Virgin Galactic 'Spaceport America' in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners. Meanwhile the mystique of Space remains as alluring as ever, as high-profile designers and educators – such as Greg Lynn – are running designs studios drawing upon ever more inventive computational design techniques. This issue of AD features the most significant current projects underway and highlights key areas of research in Space, such as energy, materials, manufacture and robotics. It also looks at how this research and investment in new technologies might transfer to terrestrial design and construction. Space architects: Constance Adams, Marc Cohen, Ondrej Doule, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Scott Howe, Brent Sherwood, Madhu Thangavelu, Andreas Vogler, Robert Zubrin. Architects: Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti, Foster + Partners, Neil Leach, Greg Lynn, OFIS architects, SADAR + VUGA.

Book Digital Poetics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjan Colletti
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1351944029
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book Digital Poetics written by Marjan Colletti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Poetics celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and original ’humanistic’ theory of CAD (computer-aided design), the author suggests that beyond the generation of innovative engineering forms, digital design has the potential to affect the wider complex cultural landscape of today in profound ways. The book is organised around a synthetic and hybrid research methodology: a contemporary, propositional and theoretical discursive investigation and a design-led empirical research. Both methods inform a critical construct that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of digitality within a contemporary architectural discourse that affects practice and academia. The chapters spiral at, from, towards, around, outside-inwards and back inside-out digitality, its cognitive phenomena, spatial properties and intrinsic capabilities to achieve, or at least, approach Digital Poetics. The book presents speculative and small-scale constructed projects that pioneer techniques and experiments with common 3D and 4D software packages, whereby the focus lies not on the drawing processes and mechanics, but on the agency and impact the image (its reading, experience, interpretation) achieves on the reader and observer. The book also features a preface by Frédéric Migayrou, a philosopher and curator, and one of the most influential cultural engineers of the contemporary international architectural scene. The book is linked to a website, which contains a larger selection of images of some featured projects.

Book Archaeology of the Digital

Download or read book Archaeology of the Digital written by Frank O. Gehry and published by Sternberg Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition and publication constitute the first phase of a multiyear research project launched by the CCA to investigate the incorporation of digital technologies in the field of architecture.