Blobitecture

Blobitecture is a slightly derogatory term for a current movement in architecture in which the building has an organic, amoeba-shaped, blobby exterior.

Blobitecture originated in the buildings of Frank Gehry, and is epytomised by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In large part, blobitecture derives its forms from an architect's interpretation of natural organic forms, but also depends on the advanced use of computer modeling to ensure that the evolving design is structuraly stable.

Another recent example can be found in Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria.

Blobitecture has a cultural heritage with the organic designs of Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, although Gaudi was arguably a century ahead of his time.