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round love-shack
A round house on South Padre Island, at the very tip of Texas, hosted Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and former Texas Governor Anne Richards. Scarlet and George Colley fell in love there, and went on...
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zaha hadid: “the world is not a rectangle”
In an interview with The Guardian, architect Zaha Hadid talks about resisting rectangular design. “The world is not a rectangle,” she insists. “You don’t go into a park and say: ‘My God, we don’t have...
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fantastic adventures in a little round house
A pillar-box. A quite ordinary-looking pillar-box. Or was it? That was what Robin was to find out. And without this ordinary — or extraordinary pillar-box there could have been no story — no funny,...
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a house as modern as a plane
INT, exhibition hall, men and women stand around a low display table showing a scale model of a circular home. R. Buckminster Fuller is interviewed by a man in a suit. Man: “Mr. Fuller, why a . . . a...
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a phenomenon of american ingenuity
News of Buckminster Fuller’s circular aluminum house, complete with artist’s rendering, in the Pittsburgh Press, on April 12, 1946 -
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circle dreams
The circle-studded facade of NYC’s Dream Downtown Hotel - The hotel is the latest incarnation of an iconic 1966 building designed by Louisiana architect Albert C. Ledner, known for a sort of playful,...
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buckminster fuller, the dymaxion house, and the world
“We are living in a spheroidal universe. A round spheroidal world—not a cubicle sugar lump world.” – Buckminster Fuller, in 1929, presenting an early model of the Dymaxion House.
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dreaming of a dymaxion house of the future
Buckminster Fuller’s first Dymaxion House, sketched out in 1927, was a hexagonal design suspended from a central mast. By 1945, when Fuller entered into an agreement with Beech Aircraft Corporation to...
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why our brains love curvy architecture
Time and again, when people are asked to choose between an object that’s linear and one that’s curved, they prefer the latter. That goes for watches with circular faces, letters rendered in a curly...
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los feliz lautner
The Harvey Residence, in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood, designed by John Lautner in characteristically exuberant style - Built in 1950, the house was said to be in terrible shape in 1998 when it was...
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would you live in a circular house?
Back in the late 1950s, when living in the suburbs was understood to be the common aspiration of mankind, the magazine Suburbia Today asked this question of its readers. In an article about the...
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300 degree house
A newly-built, near-circular house in Thornbury, England, is now on the market - The floor plan shows the circular foyer -
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360 degrees of architecture
Cecil Alexander’s circular house in Atlanta, on the cover of Florida Architect in April 1958. Finished in 1957, the house was featured in Life magazine in November of that year, and in Progressive...
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les maisons ballons
A colony of Wallace Neff’s bubble houses (“maisons ballons”) in Dakar — as they look now - And as they looked in 1949, when they were built -
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1 round house + 27 acres
For sale in Topham, Vermont. The video reveals its construction secrets.
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a dozen dymaxion dwellings
On the grounds of an abandoned military base in southern New Jersey, there survives a small collection of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Deployment Units (DDUs), the innovative designer’s WWII-era...
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“we don’t like your house either”
Designed by maverick American architect Bruce Goff, the Ruth Ford House — known variously as the Round House, Coal House, and Umbrella House — is a creative tour de force. It could not look less like...
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