Blobitecture : waveform architecture and digital design / John K. Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waters, John K. (John Kevin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organic architecture--Computer-aided design.

Organic architecture.

Computer-aided design.

Physical Description:

183 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

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, Blobitecture takes readers on a riveting tour of one of the most imaginative landscapes in contemporary architecture and industrial design.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Birth of the blob 12

Chapter 2 Blob's your uncle 30

Chapter 3 New tools of the trade 50

Chapter 4 A blob by any other name 64

Chapter 5 Biological thinking 86

Chapter 6 An utterance without a language 102

Chapter 7 The "poster boy" for blobism 120

Chapter 8 Outside the beige box 138

Chapter 9 Next generation 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-181).

ISBN:

1592530001

OCLC:

52090657