Monday, August 7, 2006

Living for Tomorrow

Peter Hall, Living for Tomorrow (Metropolis Magazine, December 2002), "Houses of the future" sold tickets at world's fairs, but they didn't affect home building. Can MIT's prefab smart house change the way web build and live.

http://architecture.mit.edu/~kll/AA_Metropolismag_House_n.pdf

   1927, Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, Richard Buckminster Fuller, developed as a kit home for mass production.
   1931, Aluminaire House, designed by Albert Frey (a student of Le Corbusier) and A. Lawrence Kocher (MIT).
   1957, Monsanto House of the Future, Disneyland until 1967.
   2001, Orange at Home, an average Hertfordshire house.

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