They’ve been called moon homes, suburban igloos and bubble houses. The dome home, a futuristic fad once heralded by hippies, is trying to stage a comeback as an antidote to climate change. They’ve ...

In Morocco, a startup is building affordable homes using a material that is ubiquitous: soil. Eco-dôme Maroc was founded in 2016. It applies local traditions to modern technology to construct ...

Ever seen a geodesic home? These eye-catching homes don’t use rectangular boards and right angles; instead, they use triangles and polygons for windows and other accents. We spoke with Blair ...

Pay attention to Buckminster Fuller and forget the square or rectangle when building a house, and instead go for a geodesic dome. The forward-thinking Fuller, responsible for giving the name geodesic ...

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty … but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong,” Buckminster Fuller is credited with saying. The architect ...

Martin Gallagher wanted his mom to live close by, so he built a spare home in his Southwest Portland backyard. Don't imagine a tiny, sweet chalet or plain box. After weighing the benefits, Gallagher ...

David Smith, president of Smith Family Dome Home Builders, is building a monolithic dome home for his family in Orange County - and, he hopes, for many others in the region in the years ahead. Dome ...