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Futuro House

Futuro House noun: a prefabricated house shaped like a flying saucer, made of plastics and polymers, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and produced from 1968 to the 1980s.

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Noun (1)

Futuro House (plural Futuro Houses)

  1. A prefabricated house shaped like a flying saucer, made of plastics and polymers, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and produced from 1968 to the 1980s.
    • The film raised many questions about the utopian future that was promised at the height of the space age and how quickly such promises were forgotten. The documentary closes on the poignant image of one of the few remaining Futuro [structures].2003, Sean Topham, Where's My Space Age?: The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design, Prestel Pub
    • All in all, 20 Futuros were produced in Finland between 1968 and 1978 and at least 25 countries were sold a production license. Marko Horne and Mika Taanila, who have made a film and a book about the Futuro, have managed to track ...2003, Liesbeth Melis, Parasite Paradise: A Manifesto for Temporary Architecture and Flexible Urbanism, Nai Uitgevers Pub

Noun (2) capitalized: Futuro house

Futuro house (plural Futuro houses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Futuro House.

Examples of Futuro House in a sentence

  • If you find a Futuro House, you've found a rare treasure!2015, Moira Butterfield, Homes Around the World, Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 28:
  • ... a hatch-like entry and drop-down staircase – but it's actually one of the world's only remaining examples of a Futuro House, designed by visionary Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968.2017, Lonely Planet, Secret Marvels of the World: 360 extraordinary places you never knew existed and where to find them, Lonely Planet...

Forms of Futuro House

pluralFuturo Houses
pluralFuturo houses

Questions about Futuro House

What does Futuro House mean?
Futuro House means a prefabricated house shaped like a flying saucer, made of plastics and polymers, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen and produced from 1968 to the 1980s.
How do you use Futuro House in a sentence?
If you find a Futuro House, you've found a rare treasure!
What part of speech is Futuro House?
Futuro House is a noun.
What is the plural of Futuro House?
The plural of Futuro House is Futuro Houses.

Words near Futuro House in the dictionary

  1. futurized
  2. futurizes
  3. futurizing
  4. Futuro
  5. Futuro Home
  6. Futuro House
  7. Futuro Pod
  8. futurological
  9. futurologically
  10. futurologies
  11. futurologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Futuro House (page history and authors); Futuro house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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