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page024from Building Ideas9 Murphy and Mackey – Geodesic Dome, St.Louis “Climatron”, 1960. (Neil Jackson) innovations and the spirit of the pre-wararchitecture – now seen as in need of reassessment. FromBanham’s point of view the “white architecture” of the 1920s and 1930s andfailed to live up to the promise of the great rallying cry of early modernism –Le Corbursier’s famous claim from 1923 that as house is a “machine for livingin”3 – and he saw Fuller, finally, as the herald of a true machine-agearchitecture. In Banham’s best-known book called Theory and Design in the FirstMachine Age (1960) he compared Fuller’s innovations in the Dymaxion Houseproject from the late 1920s to the allegedly “technically obsolete”architecture of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye – Designed and built around thesame time and 3 Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture,translated by Frederick Etchells, Architectural Press, London, 1946, pp12-13.
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