“Fluxhouse™/Flucity™: Prefabricated Modular Building System” Exhibition

The George Maciunas Foundation Inc. / Fluxus Foundation

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Fluxhouse™ is not simply a prefabricated house. It is building system designed to provide a solution to achieve social welfare by raising the Quality/Standard of Living on communities across the economic spectrum. Invented by Fluxus founder George Maciunas to resolve housing shortages in 1965, Fluxhouse™ is a mass-produced design which can be made from plastic or other abundantly available materials, consists of renewable energy and solid waste management, resistant to deterioration and pests, and resistant to hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods. As many New Yorkers have just experienced in the face of Hurricane Sandy, damage or loss of our living spaces can be devastating. The goal of George Maciunas/Fluxus Foundation is to realize George Maciunas’ vision to improve living conditions in the United States and around the world by reconsidering how an eco-friendly mass building system can provide the greatest impact with the least cost.

George Maciunas invented an innovative modular framework which allows great flexibility in the size and shapes of building constructions. Utilizing prefabrication as a means to attain cost-efficiency, George Maciunas developed Fluxhouse as a customizable solution to the standardized single home design. Originally built as a single story unit, Fluxhouse can be multiplied and adapted to suit any geographic location using a minimum amount of labor and materials. Intended to provide a sleek, contemporary, ‘zen’ living experience, the Fluxhouse floorplan includes a courtyard garden, multiple live-work spaces, kitchen, bathroom, and five structural cabinets to optimize organization.

George Maciunas was awarded architectural degrees from Cooper Union (1952) and Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology (1954). After graduation, he worked for several major firms, including Skidmore, Owing and Merrill (1955-57), the highly regarded designers Knoll Associates (1960-61) (interior design, interior graphics, exhibits, displays, structures), and Olin Mathieson (1957-1960) (R&D Aluminum div product development and design) where he is credited with the invention of a structural framework useful in construction of prefabricated buildings using extruded aluminum beams and columns. Furthermore, George Maciunas received a patent for the innovative modular building system in 1961. The Fluxhouse™ design was completed and copyrighted in 1965 as an invention which can be used to build a single family house, a highrise building, or an entire city (Fluxcity™).

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from February 01, 2013 to June 01, 2013

Artist(s)

George Maciunas

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