The photos and excerpt below are sport in the bookFifties Source Bookand highlight the Kitchen of the Future built for the 1956 Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition .
Peter and Alison Smithson were major proponent of Modernist architecture in Britain , commissioned to design the House of the Future for the 1956 Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition . The theatre was an exercise in futurist design , built of pre - fabricated plastic . The Smithsons admired the manufacture methods of the American auto industry . The aggregate production - base industries had already revolutionize half the sign – the kitchen , privy , laundry room and garage . The architect advocate using factory - built , match kitchen units which could be easy updated . The House of the Future took the construct of flexibility beyond conventional undefendable plan with only the kitchen and bathroom modules differentiated from the respite . An static rubble collector was leave and cookery utensil incorporated their own warming element . It was ideas such as these that impressed visitant to the exhibition rather than the building itself , with no external window .
See also:1999 A.D. ( 1967)Monsanto House of the Future ( 1957 - 1967)Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future ( 1957 )
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