Mohammadi Golnaz Student ID: 0237662 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Prepared for Professor: Ellen Do Course: Design Computing (587 A)
What is Blobmeister architecture?
Architects have used computer for quite long Time now, but very few of them have ever used it as an expressive medium. The term Blobmeister is used to describe architects who are using computer as a metaphor to design. Blobmeister use computer software the same way modernists used structure as springboard for form. Digital revolution has changed architectural design and those changes are very comparable to industrial revolution. Architecture in digital age asks for higher quality and greater social awareness, and ways for individually conception and creation, instead of mass production. To achieve these goals architects structure and designers need to communicate closer and understand each other language. Young architects are realizing the necessity of developing production process and using materials in order to implement their ideas. After all it is very hard to find open-minded client who agree with this kind of project. Even in the US where is the mastermind of digital architecture, it is hard to actually build the Blobmeisters architecture due to US real estate market that is base...