Blobitecture

thumb|250px|right|Future Systems' blobitecture design for the 2003 Selfridges Building department store was intended to evoke the female silhouette and a famous "chainmail" dress designed by [[Paco Rabanne in the 1960s.]]

Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine. Though intended in the Safire article to have a derogatory meaning, the word stuck and is often used to describe buildings with curved and rounded shapes.