Blobitecture: is design going pear-shaped?

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / April 15 2004: Blobitecture: is design going pear-shaped?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it's more a sort of, well, "blob".That's the term that the great thinkers and critics of our day have come up with to describe the new amoeba-shaped architecture. Or, more precisely, Blobitecture according to the author of Next Generation Architecture (Joseph Rosa, Thames and Hudson). Don't let the title panic you. I think this is rather more of an experimental phase than the way that architecture is going, although there will be long-term influences.

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