Greg Lynn Quotes

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

It should look like a beetle. Nature will show us the way.

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It's huge, but you really do get to experience more than your own existence here. It's kinda hard to isolate yourself from different types of people, different types of ideas or communities.

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients' faces.

My architecture is very much place-related.