2024-06-27T14:16:45-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/48069608/the-ideal-home-that-wasn-t Nam Henderson 2012-05-11T09:25:00-04:00 >2023-09-06T10:46:09-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e5/e56dgfm0kdllyzqo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Before the recession and the return of architectural probity, the phrase "like an alien spaceship" was all over architecture journalism like a cheap suit. Faced with anything that didn't look like a brick box, critics and headline writers would ransack their imaginations before inevitably reaching for the extra-terrestrial.</p></em><br /><br /><p> As the newly restored first edition goes on show, Justin McGuirk explores an emblem of 1960s architectural utopianism,&nbsp;&nbsp;the Futuro house, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. If you would like to visit the&nbsp;cabin number 001, it went on show last week at the <a href="http://www.weegee.fi/toimijat.asp?path=91526;91553;91555;94326" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Weegee Exhibition Centre</a> in Espoo, 20 minutes from Helsinki.&nbsp;</p> <p> H/T&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/subtopes/status/200818715137277952" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">subtopes</a></p>