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A Home for the Future, Imagined in the Past

Buckminster Fuller designed the Dymaxion House in 1927 as "the home of the future." The only surviving prototype of Fuller's vision, located at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, was meant to be a model of an affordable, mass-produced residence, but the design never caught on. 

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