Better Living Through Lustronization!
The always fabulous Excitement Machine has a very interesting entry about Lustron Homes that makes a fine follow-up to my earlier post on the Dymaxion House.
The always fabulous Excitement Machine has a very interesting entry about Lustron Homes that makes a fine follow-up to my earlier post on the Dymaxion House.
Another highlight of my weekend in Detroit was a visit to the Henry Ford Museum to see the only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House. Designed in the late 1940s, the Dymaxion was an attempt to address the post-WWII housing shortage in the US by using materials and construction techniques pioneered in the aviation industry. Sadly, it never caught on, otherwise all of us might be living in chrome houses inside of geodesic-domed cities, driving 3-wheeled cars!