GREG LYNN’S EMBRYOLOGICAL HOUSE PROJECT: THE "TECHNOLOGY" AND METAPHORS OF METORSMOF ARCHITECTURE
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- 2007-10-04T23:18:30Z
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This paper offers a close reading of one architectural text engaged in “knowledge transfer”: the
use of evolutionary biology discourse as an explanatory account and authority claim supporting
Greg Lynn’s Embryological House Project (2000). This essay addresses the twin conference
themes of knowledge transfer and the potential threat posed to the specificity of architectural
techniques. By offering a detailed reading, this paper argues that information transfer is not an
innocuous activity, but involves the critical transformation of source material. This paper argues
that technology transfer should acknowledge the workings of an ever-present technology, the
“technology of architecture”. This term designates the set of techniques governing the reworking
of material from domains exterior to architecture, into material pliable for architecture. In this
paper architecture’s evolutionary theory borrowings, provides an exemplary instance of
information transfer marked by displacement, not straightforward transmission.
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