With the publication of the Dymaxion House in 1929, Buckminster Fuller became an overnight sensation in the world of American architecture. It was an uncompromising design and spectacularly novel. The living areas were hexagonal and attached around a central supply tower, and the multistory interior was fully climate-controlled. The house was conceived as completely self-sufficient - all the necessary supply modules were contained in the tower, including water and wastewater, energy production, and air filters. The rooms were equipped with the most modern furnishings and fixtures. The approximately 150 m2 house weighed just 3 tons, cost no more than a car, and was designed to be constructed and dismantled anytime and anywhere. The house reflected Fuller's basic technological principle, his determination to achieve the greatest possible utility at the smallest possible cost in terms of energy and materials by making use of everything that science and technology have to offer. With its self-supporting structure and self-sufficiency, it also reflected another of Fuller's axioms: "A house should be completely self-sufficient and autonomous, just like a person". The Dymaxion House (which was only actually realized in other variants, such as the Wichita House) is widely viewed as a precursor to his geodesic domes.

Federico Neder has an architecture firm in Geneva. He teaches in the architecture department at the University of Geneva and is the author of a PhD dissertation on Buckminster Fuller.

Introduction.- 1. Flying Fish.- Inventory of Modernity.- The First Dymaxion.- Selling Ideas.- Transportation and Dwelling on Display.- Keck''s Houses of Tomorrow.- Fuller on the Move.- Streamlined Journeys.- Aerodynamics in the Palm of your Hand.- Aerostats and Airships.- Asleep En Route.- 2. Aerodynamic Corset.- Photographic House.- Fuller''s Domestic Silo.- Shield.- Loos'' Bath Robe.- White Case.- Elastic Girdle for Rounded Figures.- The Charming Breastplate-Bodice.- Separate, Classify, Sort, Store.- Double Skin.- 3. Weightless Body.- Scale.- Artificial Terrains.- Archaic Technology.- Cage of Forces.- Cables in Tension.- DIY: Assembling the Dymaxion.- House.- Ultralight Architecture.- Nelson''s Hanging House.- Collective/individual, open/closed, useful/useless.- Household Dissection.- Constructing in Space.- Doing More with Less.- Heavy and Transparent, Opaque and Light.- 4. Industrial Dance.- Sinuous Forms.- Dance, Architecture.- Dymaxion Igloo.- Erasing Limits.- Regarding the Organic.- Kiesler''s Infinite Dwelling.- Continuous Movement.- Endless Dymaxion.- Materializing the Endless.- Anatomy, Geometry.- 5. Control Tower.- A House of Certainty.- Home Domination.- Raised Capsule.- Field of Vision.- Seeing without being Seen.- Lautner''s Watchtower.- Spectacular House.- Sentries'' Quarters.