GREG LYNN AND THE VOICE OF INNOVATION

摘要

'To do this kind of work - it's a very fine line between sounding like you're a lunatic, and sounding like you're on the cutting edge of architecture. It's a fine line.'1 This is advice Greg Lynn offered to his students during a review of a studio work exploring the potential for robotic architectures. Proposals for robotically activated, moving buildings, described through animations and physically modelled using digital fabrication technologies, has been a pursuit of Lynn's design studios for the last five years or so. The architectural propositions are looking towards the future, aiming for the merging of buildings and robots in ways and to degrees that are yet to be realised. While the territory of robotic fabrication is becoming more familiar, presenting us with new relationships between designing and making, the becoming-robot of buildings is still 'out there'.