Greg Lynn | Probable Geometries

In this essay, Greg Lynn discussed the critique that writing is essentially an "anti-architectural gesture" defined against geometric purity. Philosopher Denis Hollier suggested that architecture is the discipline that resists the play of writing more than any other. In contrast to the indeterminate, nonideal, heterogeneous, undecidable and other vague characteristics of writing, architecture has historically linked with the complete, pure forms of exact geometries, and thus is critiqued as reducible, static, exact, fixed, proportional, and identically reproducible. But He argued that with the development and explorations of the measurement and description of amorphous matter through "anexact yet rigorous" geometries (surch as stereometry), architecture's fixed orthogonality is moved closer to vital matter while retaining a rigorous system of measure.