Greg Lynn Quotes

#1. Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

Greg Lynn

#2. The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Anish Kapoor

#3. It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

Greg Lynn

#4. It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Greg Lynn

#5. Good," he says. "Because I'm about to fuck you like I don't.

J.M. Darhower

#6. I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

Greg Lynn

#7. It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Greg Lynn

#8. Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

Greg Lynn

#9. What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Greg Lynn

#10. I always try to think in curves.

Greg Lynn

#11. While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.

Greg Lynn

#13. I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. Consider this:
1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?
And here's a bonus question:
2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

Brad Warner

#15. A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Greg Lynn

#16. Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.

Greg Lynn

#17. As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

Greg Lynn

#18. Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Henry Van Dyke

#19. The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

Greg Lynn

#20. It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

Greg Lynn

#21. With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Greg Lynn