Greg Lynn, Architectural Curvilinearity, the Folded, the Pliant and the Supple

Reading
(this link is available for 2 weeks only)

This week's reading is Greg Lynn's, "Architectural Curvilinearity, the Folded, the Pliant and the Supple". It is a very important historical text published in A.D. Architecture Design Vol 63 3/4, March/April 1993.
Another text attached to it is Claude Parent, the Oblique Function Meets electronic Media.

After the Interim Jury, we were still un-impressed by the quality of theoretical criticality displayed by the work. What we are asking is a degree of maturity in each student to be able to read outside the field of the course. We can direct the readings and the design exercise towards a direction, but the rest should be done as well by the students. It is a question of self discipline but as well of mental hygiene and intellectual curiosity.
University and especially Master's degree are meaningless if there's not a certain level of intellectual autonomy displayed by the students.
In the case of the Greg Lyn's text it means that if the author is referring to Colin Rowe, Venturi, Koetter, Mark Wigley and Philip Johnson, these references have to be studied by the students before each studio session.

The next few weeks of the semester are going to be very demanding on each student in terms of design and intellectual references.