02570nam a2200265Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001800064040003600082041000800118050002400126245013000150264005100280300003700331336002600368337002800394338002700422500001900449504006400468505071400532520094001246650003902186650004702225700003202272pucpr20200221121548.0011910s2007    nyuab    b    001 0 eng    a9781568986166  apuccprcpuccprdpucprbengerda  aspa  aNA682bR44 A73 200700aArchitectural regionalismbcollected writings on place, identity, modernity, and traditioncVincent B. Canizaro, editor.htxt  aNew York:bPrinceton Architectural Pressc2007  a463 p.bill., mapsc23 cm.fbook  2rdacontentbtxtatext  2rdamediabnaunmediaded  2rdacarrierbncavolume  aInclude Index.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 456-459) and index.  aBirth of the blob: Postwar architects and designers rage against the machine age
Blob's your uncle: Frank O. Gehry shows a generation how to design beyond the box
New tools of the trade: Information-age architcts and designers animate the process
A blob by any other name: Greg Lynn creates a manifesto for a new architectonic philosophy
Biological thinking: architects propagate a biomorphic aesthetic
An utterance without a language: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture find a new architecture in the "dimensionless territories"
The poster boy" for blobism: Karim Rashid sets out to change the world
Outside the beige box: device designers shake hands with the blob
Nex generation: the post-blobists get real.  a"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."--BOOK JACKET....collapse 0aRegionalism in architecture2Local 0aArchitecture, Moderny20th century.2Local1 aCanizaro, Vincent B.d1964-