How to live in a plastic novelty

On the left, an architectural rendering that should have been much bigger.

On the right, architectural graphics that should have been used bigger over this spread..

Part of a page from a brochure that is just eye candy
rather than being useful for the reader.

This back of the book spread describes a house tour for a graphic earlier in the book, it should really have been on the same spread with the graphic.

I remember seeing a photo of this house some decades ago and found it very intriguing. In this book the author has written a very comprehensive coverage about all aspects of the structure but was it really the house of the future or just an architectural novelty? As Monsanto was a leading plastic company why not pay (like other companies) to have their products  displayed in a Disney theme park. The obvious answer was a housing unit with the structure and most of interior objects made from Monsanto plastics. 

Were there any plastic houses built? I doubt it. Even the well known Case Study Houses, comprising thirty-six prototype designs between 1945 and 1966, of which several were built, in the Los Angeles area, didn't inspire the house building industry to create fresh suburban estates based on these inexpensive designs.

The book has plenty of photos, probably more than half and unfortunately I thought some of pages could have looked better. Interesting visual material, architects plans and other graphics have just been reduced to eye candy on pages 25, 60, 115 and 123 so the reader is missing out on worthwhile information. On page forty-five there is a tour plan of the house, Monsanto provided a printed description of the tour, instead of putting this on the next page it appears at the back of the book. With such a complete overview there are plenty of footnotes, three pages with 225 of them, this requires a lot of flipping when these notes should have been on the relevant pages.

Luckily for the author this will be the only book about the Monsanto House of the future. A good read for the general reader and Disney fans