I'd do a search, but I don't remember enough details to do one... who's the guy (I believe he was into airplanes) that was working on temporary housing, using an umbrella concept? I believe we are talking the early part of the 20th century. (http://www.mikenchell.com/images/econ_thinking.gif)
Mike...
Are you thinking of Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion house?
(http://www.ohiokids.org/siteGraphics/tz/dymaxion_house_img1.jpg)
YES!!! That's it!!! Thanks... 8-)
Now that I know what to search for... here's what I found...
http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion/
And that's just a hop and a skip for me to go visit it in person... one weekend real soon I hope!
Mike...
Ooooh, how fun!
There's something about being in one of those famous buildings that brings the lessons home.
(I didn't "get" Frank Lloyd Wright at all until I toured the (little "Usonian," remodeled, but the remodel design was by Wright) house in Florence.)
Wow, that comment about the Usonian house brings back memories. My love of architecture began the day I walked into a Usonian house replica that was part of a Wright exhibit. It was an epiphany; that house was small and simple but there was something perfectly human and intimate about it. Since then I've always wanted to build a Usonian and could never understand why they didn't catch on.
Someday...
-Mike