June 11, 2016

When Architects Smiled at the Future

It was as streamlined as a coffeemaker. As compact as an electric shaver. As modular as a Lego-block kitchen. As impossible as a dream. The Monsanto House of the Future may have been the most comically over-rationalized construction ever allowed to escape an architect's sketchbook and actually get itself built. But there was nonetheless a kind of weird joyousness about the absurd thing, which stood as the centerpiece of Disney's Tomorrowland from 1957 to 1967.

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