Organic Up-and-Comers

Okay - that headline sounds slightly pornographic, but there you go. A small article by Susan S. Szenasy in New York magazine Metropolis talks about a keynote speech she'll be giving at the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) International Conference, in Scottsdale, Arizona. She plans to discuss:

...the algorithmic work of Greg Lynn, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and our newest Next Generation winner, Virginia San Fratello--architects rethinking materials and forms at an almost molecular scale, reshaping buildings, interiors, and objects with the aid of mathematical formulas. These inventive new forms challenge every idea we have about the look and feel of our built environments, as well as how we build them. San Fratello's water- and heat-storing walls have flowing, twisting facades that go beyond our understanding of "organic." They look like a whole new species.

There's a photo of the three works which is worth enlarging. Even though mathematics and organicity might appear to be contradictory, the results achieved by these young designers would suggest otherwise.

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