Blob-Architektur für das 21. Jahrhundert. Neues Paradigma oder Relaunch einer ehrwürdigen Tradition?

Digitalization shapes our society like hardly any other development in recent decades and also significantly influences architecture. Since the mid-1990s, there have been buildings worldwide that attract attention with particularly extravagant forms. This publication focuses on a manifestation defined largely by soft, organic shapes, referred to as Blob architecture. Starting from the Poppodium MeZZ in Breda by Erick van Egeraat, the Kunsthaus Graz by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, the conference room of DZ Bank in Berlin by Frank O. Gehry, and the restaurant Le Georges in the Centre Pompidou in Paris by Jakob & McFarlane, Svenia Schneider explores the question of what can be understood by Blob and Blob architecture. What role do digital media play in its emergence and in what historical context?.