A Modernist’s Dream

Posted by: Chris L
in Humor, Linked Articles
23
Jan

On the heels of hearing about “modernism” outside of the realm of religion, and being in need of a little bit of levity, I thought it might be interesting to examine an architectural wonder from the 70’s, the Venturo Prefab. Unfortunately, “success” has passed it by:

The house had been lying in a warehouse for decades, the ageing carcass of failed modernism. The Venturo was originally thought as a beach house or bungalow that could be transported and installed anywhere, thus fulfilling the modernist aim of being universal, not needing to respond to a particular context.

Fun for the whole family!

Just to be fair, though, I’m not sure the same architect’s “post-modernist” design is any better (though it fits with a different conversation we had recently).

HT: Fark

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5 Comments(+Add)

1   Phil Miller    http://veritasfellowship.blogspot.com
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am

That awesome! Imagine if it had hovercraft capabilities!

Oh, and I’m sure you’ll get flak for posting a picture with women in bikinis here. Perhaps you should pixelate them, just to be safe. :-)

2   pastorboy    http://www.thedowngrade2007.blogspot.com
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am

I think James Caan lived in one of those in ‘Rollerball’

3   Ian    http://www.lostintheheartofsomewhere.blogspot.com
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am

Actually, her ein Europe something like this REALLY has now taken off – the BoKlok. Designed by IKEA, these are a super low-energy, environmentally friendly housing solution. There are a number of other products entering the market as well :-) . See http://www.boklok.co.uk/.

4   Neil    
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm

I’d like to have that VW…

Neil

5   Mark    
January 25th, 2008 at 7:19 am

Flying cars!!

I was promised flying cars by the year 2000.

Where is my flying car?

But seriously though…. Take notice of how spectacularly wrong the predictions were back then about what kind of houses we would be living in or cars we would be driving. Now apply your new found wisdom about how bad human predictions are to all the newfangled predictions being made today.

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