1990 – Bipedal Ornithopter – David Santos (American)

Bipedal Ornithopter in flight. Parts. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/19961114042310/http://robotgroup.org/projects/Roboblimp.html Bipedal Onithopter UAV By David Santos It runs on two legs, flaps wings to take flight, and flys nimbly about the nooks and crannies of urban landscapes. Featured on the Discovery Channel's, Invention Series, ABC's Good Morning America, and Newsweek magazine. The blimp is a 12-foot-long airship with running legs …

1980-1 – “Teacher” Inflatable Puppet from “The Wall” – Mark Fisher & Jonathan Park (British)

1980-1 – Mark Fisher – Teacher – "The Wall" The Architects' journal: Volume 196, Issues 14-21 – 1992 The work of mechanical engineer Jonathan Park and architect Mark Fisher, who together form the rock set specialists Fisher Park. This pair met as teachers at the Architectural Association in 1976, a time of radical experimentation. Among …

1971 – “Dynamat” – Mark Fisher & Simon Conolly (British)

    Source: Mark Fisher: staged architecture by Eric Holding – 2000 Dynamat Whilst studying for his Diploma at the AA (1969-71) under Peter Cook, Fisher continued to investigate the potential of inflatable technology, and took a particular interest in the way it could create environments able to respond quickly to a user's changing physical …

1968-9 – “Automat” – Mark Fisher & David Harrison (British)

Source: Mark Fisher: staged architecture by Eric Holding – 2000 Inflatables and Structures Fisher had seen his first anthropomorphic inflatable Mother of the Arts in 1966. It was an inflatable woman designed by fellow Architectural Association students for the annual Lord Mayor's procession. It was based on Jean Tinguely's She, a long, hollow reclining woman …

1968 – “La Casa Jonás” – José Miguel de Prada Poole (Spanish)

Jonah's House [La Casa Jonás in Spanish] Developed as a project named "Movil" [Cell or Cellular in English]. A pneumatic cellular structure whereby the wallsegments could be elongated or reduced according to the air-pressure in bellows attached to each side of the  cell or segment.  Source: http://arqueologiadelfuturo.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/la-casa-que-aprende-ii-197x-la-casa.html LA CASA JONAS, 1968 AUTOR: José Miguel de …