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The AAI was founded in 1896 'to promote and afford facilities for the study of architecture and the allied sciences and arts, and to provide a medium of friendly communication between members and others interested in the progress of architecture'. It sponsors a public lecture series and annual awards. |
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A preview of the forthcoming AAI lecture by Greg Lynn
Rejecting the inert two-dimensional space of the drawing board Greg Lynn prefers to initiate his projects in a virtual space of flows, forces and topological surfaces. Lynn points out that by engaging in a time based, animate process architecture can be designed to anticipate motion and force. Lynn�s approach often involves setting up dynamic simulations of abstract ideas about the context to inform the initial organisation and massing, deploying topological surfaces on which the site forces will register their influence. The ability of a project defined using topological surfaces in virtual space to accommodate and adapt to each parameter which defines it is explored in Lynn�s works and writing and is a unique facet of these new animate systems. When the animation stops there is a risk that the project will become as fixed and inflexible scheme as with any project defined by Euclidean form. Lynn argues however that form can be designed to incorporate a multiplicity of possible positions continuously without actually creating a mutable form. Using software designed for the special effects industry Lynn�s projects are suggesting new ways to approach architecture where the absolutes of Euclidean geometry are discarded for their reductiveness, favouring the complexity of algorithmically generated form. CAD-CAM technology such as stereo-lithography and computer controlled milling machines are allowing Lynn to fabricate his complex forms with accuracy and speed. Greg Lynn has forced many to rethink their approach to incorporate this new animate design process. As time passes the importance of this new design tool will become more and more apparent, ushering in a new era of architecture where design through static, two-dimensional, scaled down representations of buildings is replaced by an animate process of flows, forces and data systems. Images: Korean Presbyterian Church, Queens, New York by Greg Lynn in collaboration with Douglas Garofalo and McInturf Architects Dara Burke is a student of architecture at Bolton Street, DIT and is currently working in New York on his Year Out. |
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