Toronto Star

Forget about the box, now architects must think outside the blob. At least that's the case with Zbiginiew Oksiuta, a German-based Polish designer who has spent the last three decades exploring his idea of "biological architecture." In town this week to lecture at the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Oksiuta showed two films of his team making large gelatine blobs that he claims could change the way we live, let alone build. "This is not a copy of a biological form, or of a biological system," Oksiuta insisted, "but a way of creating space with living organisms."