Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design

John K. Waters

ISBN 10: 1592530001 / ISBN 13: 9781592530007

Published by Rockport Pub, 2003

About this Item

Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design. Waters, John K. Rockport Publishers, 2003. 185p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed, tight binding, text clean, very good condition--1592530001 ISBN 13: 9781592530007--3.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design
• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592530001
• ISBN 13: 9781592530007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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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 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.