What is a Dymaxion House?
The Dymaxion house was an efficient, mass-producible dwelling designed by visionary architect Buckminster Fuller. Although only two prototype designs were ever made in the early 1940s, the house is considered by many to be a source of inspiration for sensible, energy-efficient design. Despite critics put off by the factory-produced feel of the Dymaxion house, it remains a landmark in design today, possibly to be rediscovered in an age of sustainable living ideals. Buckminster Fuller seems like a man charged with creating human ideas of futuristic design. Improving on the work of a German architect, he created the geodesic dome, which quickly became popular for its structural capabilities and virtually limitless size. Fuller was an architect with an eye for function as well as form, after a close call with suicidal depression left him convinced he must do some good for the world. Fuller’s plans for the Dymaxion house were nothing short of revolutionary, and unfortunately considered by t
