“Animation is a term that differs form, but is often confused with motion. While motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of form and its shaping forces; it suggests animalism, animism, growth, actuation, vitality and virtuality. In its manifold implications, animation touches on many of architecture;s most deeply embedded assumptions about its structure. What makes animation so problematic for architecture is that they have maintained an ethnics of statics in their discipline. Because of its dedication to performance, architecture is one of the last modes of thought based on the inert. More than ever its traditional role of providing shelter, architects are expected to provide culture with stasis. This desire for timelessness is intimately linked with interests in formal purity and autonomy. Challenging these assumptions by introducing architecture to models of organization that are not inert will not threaten the essence of discipline, but will advance it.” 

Greg Lynn