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...With reporting by Ann Blackman/Washington, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, David S. Jackson/Palo Alto and Lisa McLaughlin/New York
...certainly holding the show together entertainment-wise with his catty punditry and villainous wit. But he's still just a plump (but getting thinner) guy who likes to walk around naked - in other words, he's just one man, and for him the Tribal Council's expulsion of Greg on Wednesday must have carried a disturbing amount of unpredictability. (Best exit yet, by the way. Leaves with a "Jerk" impression, and then eschews CBS press tour...
...wild cards. Colleen claims to have no strategy whatsoever, and indeed may have voted for Jenna to send her home to her kids (or so she could be sure of having the best female bod on the island). Rudy, with the wife out of "American Gothic," seemed to think Greg and his sister were doing an "incest type of thing" - good reason to clear the island of that whippersnapper, who was also sleeping with Colleen but flirting with Richard. And Sean? He voted for Greg because he's going in alphabetical order, and Gervase - who, incidentally, is still the laziest...
What impressed senior writer Richard Lacayo, who wrote the opening essay and profiled architect Greg Lynn, was the evangelical zeal of his subject, Lynn, who has a degree in philosophy as well as one in architecture. "He's a very animated talker, really a proselytizer." Senior editor Belinda Luscombe found herself fascinated with the social consciousness of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has made ingenious use of cardboard to build elegant homes for refugees. Senior reporter Daniel S. Levy writes about landscape architect Julie Bargmann, who turns industrial wastelands into places of beauty while preserving their gritty heritage. Says...
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. The blobs that beguile him are any "isomorphic polysurfaces," meaning shapes that are, well, blobs. 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...