The Futuristic Folly of the Dymaxion House
Architect Buckminster Fuller's wondrous vision continues to tickle our imagination, but few of his radical theories and futuristic designs were as enthralling as the Dymaxion House.
Architect Buckminster Fuller’s wondrous vision continues to tickle our imagination, but few of his radical theories (some were far fetched, like the notion that civilization began in Southeast Asia) and futuristic designs were as enthralling as the Dymaxion House.
Built out of his personal ideas about the inadequacy of the modern house, the Dymaxion House combines industrial elements, like grain silos, with the early 20th century love of streamlined forms and a sense that things could be done more efficiently.
His design for the Dymaxion House eventually proved impractical, one of the few prototypes is currently installed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, but they continue to look as attractive as Airstream trailers and other relics of the bygone era.
