Animate Form

Animate Form
by Greg Lynn

Animate Form
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Author: Greg Lynn
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN: 1568980833
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Book Reviews of Animate Form

Book Review: Inanimate Publishing
Summary: 3 Stars

The text contained in Animate Form, assembled from previously published articles, continues Lynn's rhetoric announcing the emergence of a new dynamic paradigm for architectural design [animation software]. It reads like skimming a stone across the liquid surface of current [digital] architectural discourse. Each bounce touches a relative key point maintaining enough speed to progress to the next without requiring any perceived depth of substance. This presents the reader with a wide scoping text offering potential to rethink architecture as a non-static art, but does little to critically place this mode of production within practice.

The major difficulty I have with this book [animate form] is that the projects chosen have become already dated. Although monograph culture can be blamed for the presentation of more recent work, for a book's whose content is all about a newness of direction and dynamic qualities of change, the material seems incredibly inert. Even the CDRom is a very traditional piece of homepage publishing. It simply catalogues the animations for the projects and does not provide another level of understanding through hyperlink connections.

The book competently collates the work of Greg Lynn up to 1996 and is still required reading for those involved with producing new modes of architectural design through technological advancement. I guess I was expecting a More innovative approach to the publishing of Greg Lynn's material.

Summary of Animate Form

Probably no other contemporary architect has created such a compelling and productive practice through the use of computer technology as Greg Lynn. Employing state of the art animation and special effects software, Lynn transforms space and form into highly plastic and flexible entities. He uses topological geometries to bend, twist, deform, and differentiate structure, challenging preconceived notions of architecture.

Animate Form is a book and interactive CD-ROM of recent architectural projects designed by Form, the office of Greg Lynn. The porjects documented in Animate Form explore the potential of time-based animation techniques to inform architectural design. Lynn's introduction provides a theoretical context for the experimental work that follows. Each project is subsequently explored in detail through text and full color graphics. The CD-ROM, packaged with the book, is an interactive hypertext environment that fully documents the design processes through three-dimensional renderings and animation sequences.

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