In the text “A Home is not a House” by Reyner Banham he explores the understanding of the average American home and the supporting infrastructure which is often seen as permanent in space and time. However through a series of illustrations and architectural analysis he states that the infrastructure of the home is operative independently of housing envelope. This “shell” encloses the space for superficially and he argues that the multiplicity of hardware for conditioning can serve as a shelter and become more about a series of every changing parts rather than a fixed object. While Banham does not criticize American housing architecture aesthetically, he writes about its inefficiencies due to spatial conditions and design elements. For example, he openly critiques the american open plan versus the European “cubicular” design which he believe is more thermal stable. In another comparison Banham explains that during the period of the 20 path century there was a large focus on cleanliness in America and order to satisfy that desire there was more dedicated mechanical systems compared to Europe. He concludes with design dealing with environment in one of two ways, hide from it (architecture) or react against it (mechanical systems) and with his idea of the un-house or the reduction of monumental architecture and complex forms, he believed there were new forms that serve as function.

In the text “Blow Up” by Felicity Scott, she creates a distinctive, yet compliment arrive narrative of the work of Ant Farm in relation to the text of Reyner Banham. Ant farm was a collection of environmentalist, artists, designers, builders, actors, cooks, and self-proclaimed hipped that were interested in balancing the environment through a reexamination of societal and economic practices and functions. Describing this in the text Scott states, “Environment is not only finite, it’s short. So is time”. To be able to portray this to the public and to begin a wide ranging conversation about the environment and human in habitation, Ant Farm used mass theatrics and spectacle of occupying inflatables in front of mass media to gain attention and highlight and rethink environmental concerns. Inflatables such as “The Magic Pillow” or the Alamomt Speedway project we considered instant, temporary, inexpensive and portable. Also events including “Media Theatre”, “Pollution Art” and “Air Emergency” suggested that the dwelling and the collection of housing in a urban environment could be considered a instant urbanism that is dynamic and adapts to new environmental and societal flux.

Additionally as agreed upon in the text Beyond Archigram, bubbles, Hadas Steiner explains “The greatest weakness of our immediate urban architecture: the inability to contain the fast-moving object as part of the total aesthetic”. Using examples and knowledge gains from comic pop art which references science fiction, there was a convergence of different areas of study to explore different cultural attitudes towards new space and context relationships. A pop art example includes text bubbles in comic books which were supported by a invisible air system. These can be imagined as dynamic plastic skin spaces and use pneumatics or constant low-pressure to inflate structures and architecture always at a state of adaptation and flux.

In the final text of Buckminster Fuller in “Nine Chains to the Moon”, he stated that there were four implications and issues of mass produced housing, need for master planning, evolved designs and skimming out quality over economics, display home would be massed produced with idea of “knock-down” and small lifespan due to poor materials, and unfortunate arbitrarily predetermined aesthetics instead of context and environment specific designs. Shelter service instead of housing, focuses on specificity through production, services, and replacement means research and implementation. This gives a high standard of living with mobility and transiency. Lastly he transitions into how this theory moves into fruition using the example of the first mass produced housing of the Dymaxion Model. This model uses the ideas formulated by Fuller by attempted to create a architecture that does the most in terms of shelter and conditioning with the least amount of resources and most amount of mobility possible. This creates a architecture that is dynamic and mobile, designed for the 21st century need for environmental consideration in a every growing and evolving society.