Greg Lynn

Architect; Product/Industrial Designer / United States / Greg Lynn FORM; Greg Lynn YACHT & Co; University of Applied Arts, Vienna; UCLA; Yale University

Greg Lynn’s Book List

Reflecting on my book list, I realize that I have a penchant for books from the late 19th century and then again from the late 20th century. This includes everything from the natural sciences, to novels, to philosophy. I can only suppose that my interests in typology, geometry, order, and form tied together many of these topics from the 1870s and once again from the 1970s. It’s very curious how much one learns about oneself and the world by selecting a couple of dozen tomes from one’s library.

4 books

This book, like several of the AA publications under Alvin Boyarsky, showed many of us what an architectural intellectual project could be and what form it could take as a publication. A scholarly document comprised primarily of drawings was a revelation. These days are bygone since the era of books in which paintings, drawings, models, and photographs play an intellectual role (such as Delirious New York, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and A Pattern Language, to name a few) presently seems to be extinct.

Colin Rowe

Coincidental follow-up to Jacques Derrida’s reconfiguration of Edmund Husserl that I happened upon while working for Peter Eisenman and read out of curiosity and guilt as it seemed biblical by reputation around the office. Once read, it took on biblical status for me as well.  Along with Derrida’s Edmund Husserl's “Origin of Geometry”: An Introduction, this book helped me to avoid the intellectual morass of Heideggerianism that was running rampant around the East Coast and Continental Europe in the late 1980s. 

Sigfried Giedion

The granddaddy of Reyner Banham’s work, in my opinion.

Michael Feher Editor
Sanford Kwinter Editor

Sanford Kwinter, Jonathan Crary, and Bruce Mau started the mega-book loaded with tangents and insights. Many architects, Rem Koolhaas in particular, were inspired by the format and methodology.

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