Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design - Softcover

Waters, John K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592530001 ISBN 13: 9781592530007

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

John K. Waters is a freelance journalist who has covered the technology beat from Silicon Valley for 15 years. He is senior correspondent for Application Development Trends magazine and West Coast contributing editor for IT World?s online news site. The author of over a dozen books, he lives in Palo Alto, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1592530001
• ISBN 13: 9781592530007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192