Introduction

This monograph tells the story of the Structural Study Associates (SSA), a group of technocratic architects who joined Buckminster Fuller in 1932, in Shelter magazine, in the promotion of a unique vision of architecture as a form of environmental control. This study follows the intellectual and professional journey of one of the members. The forgotten Danish architect, Knud Lönberg-Holm, was a celebrated peer among the avant-garde in Germany in 1922, before immigrating to the United States and becoming Fuller´s comrade in arms. This work draws on compelling material from his archive. Despite several revivals of Fuller, his relation to the SSA has not been exhaustively examined.