- "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Build build] a new [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Model model] that makes the existing [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Model model] obsolete."
- ([https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Buckminster Fuller]).
- "help to build a new model of a 'housing' service."
- (Norman Fellows, 1978, meeting notes).
- "...in discussing the new world-wide dwelling service you are talking about a phenomenon that is as new as the telephone, something that is installed where you need it, but you don't consider as secondhand, second rate, temporary or compromise. It must be a very desirable dwelling and you use it as long as you are there and when you move away you simply notify the service office that you are through or moving."
- (Buckminster Fuller, 1946, 'Designing a New Industry').
- "This work has been concerned with postulating a coarse model of a potential 'housing' service which would help correct the shortfalls and ensure that future appetites and demands, as yet unknown, can be identified and when necessary, satisfied."
- (Cedric Price, 1971, 'Housing Research Pt 1').
- "Two Dymaxion houses were prototyped—one indoor (the "Barwise" house) and one outdoor (the "Danbury" house)."
- "… that the mechanized containers will be but incidental apparatus of a World-Wide [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Dwelling Dwelling] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Services Service]…"
- "… that the now-developing scientific world-girdling [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Air air] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Transport transport] and [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Communication communication] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Services services], together with the new, scientific [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Dwelling dwelling] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Services service], will be [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Part part] and [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Parcel parcel] of an encompassing larger [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Units unit] [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Systems system], eventually complemented and insured of direction by world-girdling [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Energy energy] distribution [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Services services] …"
- "A single station could only provide coverage for half the globe, and for a world [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Services service] three would be required, though more could be readily used. Fig. 3 shows the simplest arrangement."
- ... that 'Atoms' are linked to 'Edukit'.
- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/Domestikit
- [https://domestikit.anticipatorydesign.info/ https://domestikit.anticipatorydesign.info/] (legacy website)
- https://domestikit.wordpress.com/
- https://extremelyprovocative.wordpress.com/
- Bucky's Ordering
- Housing Research by Cedric Price
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