In recent years architects around the world have stopped using straight lines. If this trend continues at its current rate, a child drawing a house 10 years from now will not sketch a square building with a straight floor and a shingled roof, but rather one more reminiscent of a soap bubble.

The development of computer software programs used for architectural planning and for improving building technologies has produced a new architectural language - a language that creates buildings with amorphous forms known in the professional jargon as skins.