In a 1955 article published in Architectural Reviewon the New Brutalism, Rayner Banham talks about the inherent relationship in architecture "between structure, function and form," a "common-place" which is only transformed by work that is "apprehensible and memorable." He cites art critic Michel Tapie's concept of Art Autre-different art or art of another kind-and writes of the potential for an Architecture Autre which might displace an aesthetic standard in favor of work that is "a thing in itself.., with all its overtones of human association"...

A new generation of architects is pushing digital technology to its limits and continues a tradition of "organic" architecture, often labeled "blob-itecture." Following a trajectory traced from the 17th-century Baroque to the present by Joseph Rosa, these new designers expanded the non-Cartesian aesthetics of smooth, supple, and morphed forms by such 20th-century innovators as Frederick Kiesler, Buckminster Fuller, and John Lautner, and propel it forward into the digital age. In the process, these designers and architects broke the orthodox box of Modern architecture, and often through the use of cutting-edge computer modeling software, pushed the boundaries of what shapes could be built. The results presented here are daring methodologies and astonishing, trend-setting forms for the 21st century.

ARCHITECTURE OF ANOTHER KIND

FOLOS, BLOBS + BOXES ,V.2.O

ARCHITECTINICS

ASYMPTOTE

PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

OECOI

NEIL M. OENARI

THOM FAULOERS

FIELO OPERATIONS

FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS

DOUGLAS GAROF ALO

IWAMOTOSCOTT

INDEX

CONTACT INFO

CREDITS

ACKNOWLEOGMENTS

JAKOB + MACFARLANE

JONES, PARTNERS

KOLATAN/MACOONALD

TOMLEADER STUDIO

GREG LYNN/FORM

MARTIN + BAXI

WILLIAM MASSIE

JURGEN MAYER H.

NOX

OCEAND

PATTERNS

REISER + UMEMOTO

ROY

JOEL SANDERS

SERVO

SHOP

STAMBERG AFERIAT

SYSTEMSARCHITECTS

UN STUDIO

XEFIROTARCH