The thing about design is that it's influenced by what problems you can recognise, you can't start solving them without being aware of them.

This is in many ways a question of fashion: what are the current automatic solutions to problems. People get carried away with these fashions.

In this house, it's fully nuclear. Fully electric. Fully plastic.

Often by following a particular fashion, a particular set of problems with prescription solutions, the world will just teach you what the problems are, the solutions create problems.

The Monsanto House of the Future (also known as the Home of the Future) was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA from 1957 to 1967. It was sponsored by Monsanto Company. The design and engineering of the house was done jointly by Monsanto, MIT, and the Disneyland Imagineering department. The fiberglass components of the house were manufactured by Winner Manufacturing Company in Trenton, NJ, and was assembled into the house on-site



A future without problems? by Monsanto.

Scary.

This made me laugh:

The building was so sturdy, that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers. The building was ultimately demolished by using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The reinforced polyester structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.