01. Buckminster Fuller, 4D Time Lock. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Lama Foundation, [c.1972]
Buckminster Fuller self-published 4D Time Lock in the late 1920s, calling for a new type of housing that could be constructed in a day. Answering his own call, Fuller sketched several visionary schemes for lightweight ten-deck towers that could be constructed in a central location and carried anywhere in the country via large zeppelin. The technology to construct such buildings, however, did not yet exist and Fuller's schemes never came to fruition.

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"Paper Architecture: Visionary Structures on the Printed Page," Case 5, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, January 18-March 15, 2011