Blobitecture

[1] Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue 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.

Other computer-aided design functions used are the nonuniform rational B-spline or NURBS, freeform surfaces, and digitizing of sculpted forms similar to computed tomography.

Similarly, the work of Vittorio Giorgini (Casa Saldarini), Pascal Haüsermann, and especially that of Antti Lovag are examples of successfully built blobs.

On the basis of form rather than technology, the organic designs of Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona and of the Expressionists like Bruno Taut and Hermann Finsterlin are considered to be blob architecture.

[10] The term, especially in popular parlance, has come to be associated with odd-looking buildings including Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997) and the Experience Music Project (2000).

Called the Water Pavilion (1993–1997), it has a fully computer-based shape manufactured with computer-aided design tools and an electronic interactive interior where sound and light can be transformed by the visitor.

Future Systems ' blobitecture design for the 2003 Selfridges Building department store was intended to evoke the female silhouette and a famous "chainmail" dress designed by Paco Rabanne in the 1960s.
The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller , 1967
The Edificio Copan by Oscar Niemeyer , 1957
The Flintstone House in northern California
Water Pavilion by NOX/ Lars Spuybroek , Netherlands, 1997
The Glasshouse, Gateshead building by Norman Foster , 2004
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River by Frank Gehry , 1997