TY  - BOOK
AU  - Canizaro,Vincent B.
TI  - Architectural regionalism: collected writings on place, identity, modernity, and tradition
SN  - 9781568986166
AV  - NA682 R44 A73 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press
KW  - Regionalism in architecture
KW  - Local
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Include Index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-459) and index; Birth 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
N2  - "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
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