Dymaxion house
The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with existing homebuilding techniques.
Fuller designed several different versions of the house at different times, but they were factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. One important design consideration was ease of shipment and assembly.
Criticisms of the Dymaxion Houses include their supposed cookie-cutter approach to housing which completely disregarded local site and architectural idiom, and their use of energy-intensive materials such as metal, rather than low-energy materials such as adobe or tile.