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In 25 years, a new house won’t look like a spaceship, but appearances can be deceiving BY ROGER YEPSEN The Future of he future isn’t what it used to be—not when it comes to beyond the reach of many families. Traditional building materials forecasting how houses will be built. In the past, Homes are becoming scarce and expensive. Energy is an enormous concern: of Tomorrow showcased the gee-whiz technology of the witness the record-high cost of oil, a nonrenewable resource whose Tmoment. Reinforced concrete or steel or plate glass or supplies are finite and whose global demand is increasing. With even plastics would deliver us to a better life. We had Mies van der Rohe’s the way we build houses under scrutiny, it shouldn’t surprise anyone minimalist boxes, Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion Living Machine, the all- that design is going to be a big concern. metal Aluminaire House, and Philip Johnson’s fishbowl-as-home. In the 1950s, when Monsanto built its 30,000-lb. plastic House of the You’d feel at home in the future Future in Disneyland, Walt Disney suggested that Tomorrowland’s Most consumer items play up technological bells and whistles, but technological wonders could help to foster world peace. our homes tend to conceal them. “We still like a house that looks like As we move into a new millennium, Walt’s hopefulness sounds a house,” says Sarah Susanka, an architect whose Not So Big House almost quaint. Homes of Tomorrow no longer seem to grab the pub- gospel has gotten a great deal of attention. No matter where building lic’s attention. Today, the best-known futuristic home is probably the science takes us, the home of the future probably will be packaged in Jetsons’ goofy space pad. We’ve lost the sense that home building can a familiar, cozy form, not in the shape of a bubble or dome or Mod- be a r