According to TED.com:”Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture — and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his theory.”
“Greg Lynn is the head of Greg Lynn FORM, an architecture firm known for its boundary-breaking, biomorphic shapes and its embrace of digital tools for design and fabrication.”
“Who says great architecture must be proportional and symmetrical? Not Greg Lynn. He and his firm, Greg Lynn FORM, have been pushing the edges of building design, by stripping away the traditional dictates of line and proportion and looking into the heart of what a building needs to be.”
“A series of revelations about building practice — “Vertical structure is overrated“; “Symmetry is bankrupt” — helped Lynn and his studio conceptualize a new approach, which uses calculus, sophisticated modeling tools, and an embrace of new manufacturing techniques to make buildings that, at their core, enclose space in the best possible way. The New York Presbyterian church that Lynn designed with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, collaborating remotely, is a glorious example of this — as a quiet industrial building is transformed into a space for worship and contemplation with soaring, uniquely shaped and tuned elements.”
“In a sort of midcareer retrospective, the book Greg Lynn Form (watch the video) was released in October 2008; recently, Lynn has collaborated with the video team Imaginary Forces on the New City installation as part of the MOMA exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind.” In November 2008, FORM won a Golden Lion at the Venice Bienniale for its exhibition Recycled Toy Furniture.”
Organic Algorithms in Architecture by Greg Lynn
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
How To Make A Crystal Grid Layout for Your Home by Energy Muse shows us how to use the Flower of Life, sacred geometry and crystals to create a grid to strengthen a focused intention. Some of you might think this is too “airy fairy” for your tastes, but I think you will find this a beautiful way to make a new type of mandalas.
Here is what Energy Muse has to say about this video:
“Crystal Grids integrate sacred geometry with the power of crystals to strengthen a focused intention. You may be asking yourself, what is the difference between using individual stones versus a crystal grid? The power of a crystal grid comes from the union of energies created between the healing stones, sacred geometry and your intention. The combination of the power of crystals in a geometric pattern greatly strengthens your focused intention to manifest results much quicker. We have crystal grids in almost every room of the Energy Muse office; each intended for a different purpose or goal. Whatever your goal may be, you can create a powerful combination of crystals into a grid, to hold your intention and manifest it.”
“Using crystal grid layouts in your home can transform the energy of your space. The stones work together, combining all their unique energies for one goal, which can amplify the intention. The sacred geometry of a grid also works with the crystal energy to make powerful energy to manifest results quicker.”
“Positive energy, whether it is love, happiness, peace or blessings, enhances all aspects of our lives. We have crystals for positive energy in each room to ensure that our space is inviting in blessings and that we have a positive environment to work and live in. Use crystal grid layout attracts positive energy into your space by activating the space with your intention.”
Enjoy!
How To Make A Crystal Grid Layout for Your Home by Energy Muse
In today’s tutorial, Reviewing MANDALA APPS by SwanStar Designs, we get to see SwanStar Designs play with a number of different apps for creating mandalas on her Android phone and pad. The apps reviewed include:
According to TED.com:”Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture — and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his theory.”
