page_title: Roy Mason (architect)
section_title: Smart houses
hierarchical_section_title: Roy Mason (architect) / Works / Smart houses
caption_attribution_description: English: One of three Xanadu experimental houses, built 1979 demolished 2005
context_page_description: Roy Mason was an American lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect 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 as exemplified in the Xanadu House.
context_section_description: Mason also favored the concept of computer automated homes which he demonstrated in his Xanadu homes with Bob Masters. Mason invented architronics, which was exemplified in his Xanadu House near Disneyland. The Xanadu was a protype of a smart home, with a control center in the family room, lightning control, automatic temperature control, sound-proof and computer-equipped work and study stations, kitchen software for cooking and shopping lists (the 'Robutler'), and a plan to create a fridge/microwave to store and cook food, preprogrammed music playlists selected according to the family mood...
  List of projects
  Xanadu (1979–1983) visitor attraction franchises built from insulation
  "Star Castle" in New Fairfield, Connecticut
  Experimental school built from insulation in Virginia
  The Mushroom House in Bethesda, MD outside Washington, D.C.
  Exhibits for the Capital Children's Museum
  Capital Children's Museum, India
  1987: 10130 Darmuid Green Drive, Potomac, Maryland, for Frank and Cecelia Ross.
  Several dome shelter designs for homes
  Solar Village
  Roy Mason created several forward-looking exhibits for the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C..
caption: Exterior of Xanadu House in Kissimmee, Florida, 1990.
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