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Blobism describes a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. With the modern capability of technology to supply entirely 'artificial' complex substances, with unique performance characteristics, the range of possible design forms has grown considerably. Architecture radicals, such as Archigram in the 1960s, Buckminster Fuller and the deconstructivists, began to design unusual, inflatable and 'plastic' buildings that exploited this potential, and sometimes were even beyond the structural possibilities of the time.
 
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), who popularised the ‘Geodesic Dome’ through his work, was one of the first modern Western thinkers to connect architecture to ecology and the environment, describing describe the modern world as ‘an ecosystem to be reconciled with nature.’ Geodesic constructions partly appealed to Fuller as a metaphor for the principles of a systemic and energy efficient worldview; it was extremely strong for its weight and its ‘omnitriangulated’ surface provided an inherently stable structure, and because a sphere encloses the greatest volume for the least surface area. Fuller did not limit himself to one field but worked as a 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist' to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty.

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Architextures 014 - Francesca - Blobism

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Architextures 014 - Francesca - Blobism

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