Readings: Greg Lynn

Reading talk points:

title: “Probable Geometries: The Architecture of writing bodies”
1.Practice and value of “Ideal proportion” vs. “trangressive”
2.Niemem Sketches: Juxtaposition of architecture findings vs. medical-scientific studies.
3.Lynn notes how the understanding and respecting the rule of exact geometry forms (ideal proportions) are just as valuable the amorphous organic forms; also, venerates the primitive geometrical principles findings by Delesse and Glagolev.

Title: “Blob Tectonics or why Tectonicts is Square and Topology is Groovy”
1.Blob: “the term blob connotes a thing which is neither singular nor multiple but an intelligence that behaves as if it were singular and networked but in its form can become virtually infinitely multiplied and distributed.” (Lynn, P. 172)
2.Blob in Architecture=”Blobitecture”, “Deconstructivism”
3.Related videos:

Yokohama Port Terminal Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyzgMg8TPhw

Otto Wagner Postal Bank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF2IPZC2sio