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13 Facts About Greg Lynn

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Greg Lynn was born on 1964 and is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, a Full Professor at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

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Greg Lynn is CEO and co-founder of the Boston based robotics company Piaggio Fast Forward.

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Greg Lynn won a Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

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In 2010 Lynn was named a fellow by United States Artists.

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Greg Lynn is a member of the board of trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

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Greg Lynn was born in North Olmsted, Ohio, and claims always to have wanted to be an architect.

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Greg Lynn is distinguished for his use of computer-aided design to produce irregular, biomorphic architectural forms, as he proposes that with the use of computers, calculus can be implemented into the generation of architectural expression.

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Greg Lynn has written extensively on these ideas, first in 1993 as the editor of an Architectural Design special issue called "Folding in Architecture".

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The 2008 book Greg Lynn FORM, edited with Mark Rappolt, includes contributions by his colleagues, collaborators and critics including Ross Lovegrove, Jeffrey Kipnis, Chris Bangle, Sylvia Lavin, Imaginary Forces, Peter Schroder, Bruce Sterling, J G Ballard, Brian Goodwin and Ari Marcopoulos.

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Greg Lynn was one of the earliest teachers to explore the use of the digital technology for building design and construction when he was teaching "Paperless Studios" with Hani Rashid and Stan Allen while Bernard Tschumi was dean of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1992 to 1999.

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Greg Lynn was professor of spatial conception and exploration at the ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture from 1999 to 2002 and was Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture from 1999 to 2016.

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Greg Lynn's New York Presbyterian Church in Queens, New York, with Douglas Garofalo, Michael McInturf is an early project which used vector-based animation software in its design conception.

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Greg Lynn was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design.