Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design

John K Waters,

ISBN 10: 1592530001 / ISBN 13: 9781592530007

Published by Rockport Publishers October 2003, 2003

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The apple iMac. The New Beetle. the Oh Chair. The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. These are all classic examples of blobism, a futuristic retelling of the curve, resulting in protoplasmic forms designed by computers. A growing number of inventive architects are now embracing this concept, making 'blobitecture' the hottest global trend in the industry. This is the first book to focus exclusively on the blobitecture phenomenon in detail: how the process works, the geometric and environmental challenges it presents, the sophisticated software that allows artists to bend the lines of traditional architecture, and the stunning work produced by this art form. Featuring curved walls to blob-esque furniture to Greg Lynn's Embryological House and Koloatan and McDonald's Title House, this is both a showcase of the best in blobism and a guide to applying it in a designer's own work. Out of print. Book is signed by previous owner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers October 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592530001
• ISBN 13: 9781592530007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture - Digital

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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.