What was the Dymaxion Deployment Unit?
[From Jay Rozen.] Alden Hatch, in his “At Home in the Universe,” describes BF’s “Dymaxion Deployment Unit” (DDU), a circular structure which BF intended as cheap civilian housing. From 1940 to Pearl Harbor, they were manufactured for Allied troops and sent all over the world. [From Pat Salsbury] For more pictures of the D.D.U., or the other stuff Bucky worked on, check “The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller.” For blueprints and such, (not necessarily in a size that is legible all the time!
