There are architects who love the Parthenon. Greg Lynn has a thing for the blob. This would not only be the '50s sci-fi thriller about a belligerent wad of jelly.
Architecture is a profession in which the cube and sphere are still the literal building blocks.
What Lynn prefers reminds you of amoebas and bundled foam. In the most pliant forms of nature, in very irregular geometry, he sees the future. At 35, he's already a much discussed theorist who teaches at both ucla and the Eidgen ssische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is nothing less than professor of spatial conception and exploration. At form, his Los Angeles based architecture firm, he practices what he preaches. Lynn's radical use of design software and computer technology Listen to excerpts from TIME reporter Richard Lacayo's interview with Greg Lynn.