Roy Mason (birth date unknown - 1996) was a lecturer, writer and futuristicarchitect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources. Mason invented architronics which was exemplified in his Xanadu homes. In the 1980s Mason was the Architecture Editor of the Futurist Magazine. He was also the first Executive Director of the Home Automation Association. In 1996 Roy Mason was murdered in Washington DC where he had lived for most of his life. Image File history File links The architect Roy Mason showing his model of the Xanadu home. ... Image File history File links The architect Roy Mason showing his model of the Xanadu home. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the US or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... For the meaning in finance, see futures contract. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect/Building designer is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Executive director is a title given to a person who is the head of an executive branch of an organization or company. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... ...
Career
Before entering his career of architecture and design, Mason received a masters degree from the Yale University School of Architecture. Mason was interested in futuristic homes that use alternative materials which make it easier to build homes and more affordable. Mason also favored the concept of computer automated homes which he demonstrated in his Xanadu homes with Bob Masters. This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Works
Xanadu (1979 - 1983) visitor attraction franchises built from insulation.
Experimental school built from insulation in Virginia.
RoyMason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC (born 18 April 1924) is an English politician and former Cabinet minister.
The small, pipe-smoking, former coal miner first went down the mines at the age of fourteen and remained in the coal industry until 1953 when he was elected Labour MP for Barnsley.
He was created a life peer as Baron Mason of Barnsley, of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, upon his retirement from the House of Commons.
Mason had worked on a similar project prior to his involvement in the creation of the Kissimmee Xanadu House — an “experimental school” on a hill in Virginia which was also a foam structure.
RoyMason also planned a low cost version which would cost $80,000, to show that homes using computers do not have to be expensive.
Other architects and designers saw Xanadu House as an unprofessional architectural design because of the materials used, and the odd use of colors and shapes inside the home.
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