The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now by William Smock

Author:William Smock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2004-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

The all-time lightness nut was Buckminster Fuller. His three-wheeled, airplanelike Dymaxion Car was very fast. Tippy and fragile, it didn’t stand a chance in a collision.

Fuller’s first aluminum home design, the 1927 4D apartment house, was meant to be deposited in the wilderness by a dirigible. It was a self-sufficient habitat, part of a “one-town world” accessible via “air ocean.” The dirigible was supposed to dig a foundation by dropping a bomb.

Fuller thought gravity was old-fashioned as a structural glue. He often complained that people have no idea how heavy their houses are. His diagram shows that an aluminum apartment house could weigh less than a single-family suburban home.

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