Movement
Blobitecture
Explore in the Atlas →A digital-age tendency, named after Greg Lynn's 1995 'blob architecture' experiments, producing curved, organic, amoeba-like building forms generated through computer-aided design, NURBS surfaces and metaball modelling.
Fantasy Ephemerality
Details
- Origin
- United States
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Digital model
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Archigram influenced
Sources
- Greg Lynn. Animate Form. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Blobitecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/blobitecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.