Head over to Expo Lounge to read (and see) an extensive post about Disney’s House of the Future.

I would like to live in Joe Colombo’s Milan apartment… just for one day. I get really excited when I see his Elda chair shown in the UFO television series.

"I think I dislike things that are familiar or ordinary. I seriously hate Japanese housing complexes (though not as much as before, for I can now see them from a different angle), I don’t like the shapes of spoons, forks, and cars. I want to see what I have never seen before."

— Aya Takano

The World of Buckminster Fuller, an 85 minute DVD by Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Snyder told entirely in Bucky’s own words.

I recently visited Chicago for a printmaking conference and stopped by the Museum of Contemporary Art. To my surprise, I got to see and experience a wonderful exhibit, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. The exhibit was brought to Chicago and organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art showcasing a large collection of drawings, photographs, books and models. What an incredible man. He put it best by saying, “a designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.” I am amazed at how he envisioned the world, how he was at the forefront of environmentalism and how he was an advocate for every man.


(Photo credit: lambcutlet.org)


Inside Expo ‘67 in Montreal (Photo credit: SCAD Visual Resource Database)


Geodesic domes at the Eden Project (Photo credit: Jürgen Matern on Wikipedia)

Take a look at the MCA’s website for the exhibit where you can download the gallery guide in addition to an audio tour as told by Jamie Snyder, Bucky’s grandson.

Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath (1970)

Pink Tentacle collates snippets about the Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath, an egg-shaped prototype appliance shown at the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, in which a bather sits inside and is cleaned, massaged, and dried in an “automated 15-minute process.” Consider me fully willing to place this in my bathroom should Sanyo ever decide to produce this wet Orkian womb. (via Boing Boing Gadgets)

Leonardo Glass Cube: I totally approve of the white interior. (via)

Ever since I saw this photo I have been in love with Verner Panton. This is how I imagine my world. Katie posted some great pictures over at now voyager.

From Seventeen, April 1974

Social Housing by OFIS in Slovenia. Similar to container housing in the Netherlands.