Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design

by John K. Waters

The Apple iMac and the New Beetle, Embryological House and the Experience Music Project, the Palm V and the Oh Chair - all these innovative, trend-setting designs have been identified with a computer-generated, digitally evolved genre of architecture and industrial design called blobitecture. Using the powerful computers and advanced 3-D animation software developed for movie special effects, the blobmeisters spawned a brood of biomorphic buildings, furniture, and machines. From apartments that evolved through "genetic manipulation" to womblike office cubicles, from a museum with layered and luminous "skin" to a house with walls that serve as thermodynamic "organs," from torso shopping bags to jellyfish barstools, from blobjects to globjects to the Superblob, Bibitecture takes readers on a riveting tour of one of the most imaginative landscapes in contemporary architecture and industrial design.

Genres: Architecture, Design

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Taking the popular appellation coined by Greg Lynn, the author makes loose (but, I guess, logical) connections to other areas of design that have tended to become blobby during the dot.com era. Annoyances include his frequent use of the tern "the bleeding edge" to describe such things as the new Beetle. I suppose the beetle can stay, but I'm still waiting for the rest of this crap to bleed away!

[Fatimah Zahro · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is amazing