ARTH 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Plywood, Case Study Houses, The Henry Ford

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New technology, postwar tech and culture in the u. s. Never achieved a full secondary education, but was always an inventor, make life easier in so many different ways. Ideas were often quite radical his work wasn"t popular with the general population but his ideas in wwii were taken with great enthusiasm. Dymaxion deployment unit dymaxion used for dynamic maximum tension. This is a word he developed earlier in 1920 when he was playing different housing types. Main idea behind dymaxion is the use of cables held in tension in major part os his structure: he continues to use this name and the deployment unit - walls are corrugated steel. For people who are in need of housing after wwii. Privacy, curtain hanging from ceiling to divide rooms. This is not popular with public and never takes off as a housing type. Buckminster fuller proposes a neighborhood of dymaxion houses.

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