Greg Lynn reading

Greg Lynn
Blob Techtonics

Greg Lynn says blobbiness will be treated in three regards: first in the images of science fiction horror films; second in the philosophical definition of vicious composite entities; and last, in contemporary construction techniques. Tectonic practitioners argue that humans have always structured themselves as standing upright and so should building. Greg Lynn argues that the idea that buildings must stand erect is already discredited by two hundred years of gravity studies. Also that as structural engineers have for centuries, architects might consider more complex analogies of support than the simplistic, bankrupt, and highly overrated notion that building should stand vertically. Unlike structural engineers, architects are expected to be simple, crude, and upright in their approach.