Frank Lloyd Wright Beside A Model Of The New Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 25, 1953. This Became

(via Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Planet Trip (1960))

art by Walter Buehr 

Brian Lewis’s unused art for Usborne’s “Cities of the Future.” 

Geodesic radomes at the Misawa Security Operations Center, Misawa, Japan. (Wikipedia)

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater Mill Run, USA 1936

This is Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso and at least in my eyes, the patron saint of "afro solar punk". He builds using local, sustainable materials, and uses the education he received in Germany to improve on traditional methods already known. His first project was a school in his home village, built to enable other children to receive an education like he once was. The school has a self-cooling mechanism that does not require AC and was built cost effectively together with the community. This year he won the Pritzker Prize. You know what, just watch his TED Talk, I highly recommend it.

The architecture of the future will at once appear alien and familiar. As though it has always existed and as though we have never seen it.

“I got a lot of love to give. And right now, my only outlet is my ham radio.”

Paul Maymont, Maison ‘Diamant’ (Polyhedral House), Bath, Somerset, England. 1967

Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.