Blobitecture

by Waters, John K.

• ISBN13: 9781592530007
• ISBN10: 1592530001
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Rockport Pub

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John K. Waters is a freelance journalist who has covered the information technology beat from Silicon Valley for more than fifteen years. He currently serves as senior correspondent for Application Development Trends magazine and contributing editor for Programmers' Report

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 8
Birth of the blob	p. 12
Blob's your uncle	p. 30
New tools of the trade	p. 50
A blob by any other name	p. 64
Biological thinking	p. 86
An utterance without a language	p. 102
The "poster boy" for blobism	p. 120
Outside the beige box	p. 138
Next generation	p. 158
Sources	p. 174
Photographer credits	p. 182
Acknowledgments	p. 183
About the author	p. 184
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