In this section I present an archive of non-toxic housing concepts which I've studied over the years, accompanied with commentary on the difficulties encountered in trying to realize them. As you can see, there are quite a great variety of housing options available with contemporary technology, even when it comes to meeting the strict requirement of completely non-toxic materials. The problem, generally, is that in a housing industry as primitive as the one we have here in the US today anything different tends to be difficult or expensive to the point of impossibility.

Buckminster Fuller once noted that he was often puzzled by the inability of his sophisticated housing technologies to be embraced by the mainstream housing industry -until he finally realized that the actual problem was that there was, in fact, no such thing as a housing industry.

Dream House

Min-A-Max and other Space Frames

Simplicity and Pavilion Architecture

This Web House and the Dream Catcher

Superbox

Under the Silver Arches

Airstreaming

Lustron Mania

Amid the Ruins of the 20th Century

Third World Ingenuity and the Legacy of the Urban Nomads

The Myth and Promise of Dirt Cheat Housing

The Classic Rock Realm of Ferro-Cement

Living Downunder

The World to Your Door

On the Waterfront

Power & Light

Final Project