Canadian Centre For Architecture (CCA) has kicked off new LIVE talk-show series with Greg Lynn in Montreal. Greg Lynn is the curator of CCA's one of the latest exhibitions Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention, which will be on view until October 16, 2016 in the main galleries. 

CCA has recently released three episodes from Greg Lynn's show including prominent names of digi-tech architecture: Neil Denari, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa and Enric Ruiz Geli. Greg Lynn in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects from the 1990s and 2000s. Over the course of eleven episodes, Greg talks with Neil Denari, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa, Enric Ruiz Geli, Sulan Kolatan and Bill Mac Donald, François Roche, Ulrich Königs, Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser, Nader Tehrani, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Wolf Prix, and Patrik Schumacher

Neil Denari's works explore the technical and formal impacts of technology on architecture. His experiences there, like those of Paris, have been a constant reference on phenomena as diverse as urban morphology and fashion design. 

His first project built in Japan (1996), the Interrupted Projections exhibition space, has now been followed by a series of bank projects for the Mitsubishi Trust Financial Group and other experience economy projects. With NMDA, Denari has focused on a diverse range of design endeavors that look at manifold issues pertaining to architectural speculation.

Denari is the first guest of Greg Lynn, who says in a 12-min episode that ''not much has changed since the 90s, as the software is not that much different, just easier to use. The impetus now is on pushing the concept further.'' 

In the episode, Denari is still giving an importance to the 'drawings' for today's envision and he adds that ''%80-85 percent of the work today exists only as drawings, so much lives only in the digital world. It is very important to preserve and care for these files.'' ''Figuration, abstraction, realism, and hyper-realism are as important today as they were in the early days of digital,'' he added.

CCA will be releasing one episode each week over the summer. Greg Lynn said that ''It will be all about the 90s” today, as the exhibition focuses mainly on the genesis of digital design and production. Part 3 is about seminal projects that have set standards for today’s buildings.''

Projects by these architects were included in CCA's exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation is a big part of the Archaeology of the Digital program overall; Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological reading of how digital tools were incorporated into architecture.

You can follow up CCA's Greg Lynn talk-show series from CCA Youtube channel.

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