Futuro Tomorrow's House from Yesterday

The book, Futuro - Tomorrow's House from Yesterday gives several view points of  the Futuro house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, first introduced in 1968.

Also included is a DVD featuring the 29-minute documentary film FUTURO - A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) plus 45 minutes of rare amateur film and other archive footage.

192 pages + DVD
Language: English and Finnish
Edited by Marko Home and Mika Taanila
Publisher: Desura, 2011 (4th printing)
ISBN: 9789525339130

The architect Matti Suuronen designed Futuro in 1968. The initial idea was to invent a ski cabin for difficult terrain and made to be put into serial production, but was too expensive and special. Though it did reach international attention, the oil crisis tripled the price of plastic and buried the expectations of Futuro to become a world hit.

The Futuro house sums up the space architectural shapes and new optimistic ideas from the 1960's. The first Futuro house (nr 001), owned by the exhibitioncenter WeeGee, is yearly open for the public from May to August.