blobitecture , auch: blobism

You wouldn't use a word like blobitecture in your writing."

The voluptuous blue waves (note the boat wreck, above right) look like blobitecture: architecture created by computer modeling.

Blobitecture is as loose and idiosyncratic as the blobby forms it yields.

Expressionistic architecture today is an evident influence in deconstructivism, the work of Santiago Calatrava, and the organic movement of blobitecture.

Waters, John K. Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design.

Modernist architecture (also called Neomodern) became more dominant in the early 2000s again, joined by short-period fashionable styles like Deconstructivism and Blobitecture.

For Ost and Kuttner, the lived experience of blobitecture escapes the severity of Modernism without indulging in cartoon.

Gehry was also criticized for his Experience Music Project building in Seattle, which was called "blobitecture" -- and not in a good way.

Niemeyer's Edificio Copan built in 1957 undulates nonsymetrically invoking the irregular non-linearity often seen in blobitecture.

The Pavie House in Neve Daniel is a rare case of non geometric biomorphic architecture (blobitecture) in Israel.

This form of blobitecture was later officially coined "non-standard architecture" at the large group exhibition of the same name at the Centre Pompidou (2003) in Paris.

"Birds were the original architects," Ms. Pearlman said, "creating fantastic and extreme examples of blobitecture and parametric design long before any architecture critic labeled these styles.

In recent years, Birmingham was one of the first cities to exhibit the blobitecture style with the construction of the Selfridges store at the Bullring Shopping Centre.

The area is now home to not just the largest city-centre mall in Britain but also the most visually striking - particularly the "blobitecture" section that houses Selfridges department store.

The building - which lights up like a spaceship at night - is an example of "blobitecture", a modernist type of architecture that describes structures with a bulging, amoeba-like form.

Conners Crawley Sanders of New York designed No. 9, a lush, autumnal restaurant in the East Village, as an antidote to the usual downtown glowing blobitecture.

The Selfridges department store is a prime example of the early 21st century movement referred to as "blobitecture", and has been compared to Peter Cook's Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria.

Although still in an early phase, the technology has caught the eye of the Los Angeles architect Greg Lynn, one of the earliest proponents of computer-driven three-dimensional design, also called blobitecture.

Beatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner spend most of their time in the counterpoint of blobitecture - a 200-year-old Jeffersonian villa on 500 acres in Virginia designed by a craftsman who worked on Monticello.

By 2005, Norman Foster had involved himself in blobitecture to some extent as well with his brain-shaped design for the Philological Library at the Free University of Berlin and the Sage Gateshead opened in 2004.

The design techniques developed by Utzon and Arup for the Sydney Opera House have been further developed and are now used for architecture, such as works of Gehry and blobitecture, as well as most reinforced concrete structures.

Though the term 'blob architecture' was in vogue already in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine in an article entitled Defenestration.

The French porte-cochere is just a covered driveway, but blobitecture has a pejorative ring to it, the way edifice complex (a play on "Oedipus complex") was used to deride the tendency of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York to build monumental structures in Albany.

The new shopping centre was completed in 2004 and was designed by Benoy in partnership with Future Systems who designed the iconic and award-winning Selfridges Building which is an irregularly-shaped structure, covered in thousands of reflective discs (see picture) and is a form of blobitecture.