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page025from Building Ideasacknowledged by most architectural criticsas a classic example of the New Architecture that modernists strove to achieve.The Dymaxion, however, with its circular drum of living space suspended from acentral Duralumin mast housing all the mechanical services was, to Banham, thetrue realization of Le Corbusier’s notion of the “mass-production house”. Itwas, for him, a pioneering example of the kind of pure “technology transfer” aswell as the “served and servant spaces” arrangement that were to become basicprinciples of the developing high-tech tradition. Like the later geodesic domeprojects which simplified the form of the Dymaxion house into a keletalsheltering roof structure made of repeated modular components, Fuller’s ideaswere presented as the inevitable outcome of the efficient use of the latest newmaterials. He disparaged the seemingly trivial preoccupations of architectslike Le Corbusier and others who professed to be searching for a rational andfunctional architecture while, to his eyes, merely indulging in irrelevantstylistic manipulations more appropriate to the whims of the fashion industry: “Wehear much of designing from the ‘inside out’ among those who constitute whatremains of the architectural profession – that sometimes jolly, sometimes sanctimonious,occasionally chi-chi, and often pathetic organization of shelter tailors”.4 Withits lightweight, cheap and portable, frame-and-skin construction the DymaxionHouse concept actually grew out of the same obsession with the forms of yachts,ships and early aircraft that had inspired Le Corbusier’s radical thinking,even though this had lead to quite different results. The fact that Fuller wasmore interested in the prototype than its mass-production possibilities isillustrated by his unwillingness to launch into production for the militarymarket after the war, when orders for his Dymaxion-inspired “Wichita” houselooked set to exceed the first 60 000 units the factory was preparing toproduce. Fuller’s hesitancy may partly have been due to the disastrous debut ofhis first Dymaxion car, involved in a fatal accident at the gates of the 1933 4R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon, Southern Illinois UniversityPress Carbondale, 1938 & 1963, p 9.
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