Dymaxion House Exhibit, Dearborn, MI, Henry Ford Museum

The Industry Industry Missed

Kirby Urner
Nov 6 · 5 min read

For those of you well briefed in the history of Architecture, the above title may sound like a meme, which it is, and not my invention. Let’s check a search engine, here in November, 2019.

That’s right, we get in a time machine and travel back to July 1932, and Fortune Magazine is featuring Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House. The article is by Archibald MacLeish and the full title is: The Industry Industry

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