Observed arrival · 2026-10-05
Bernie’s Dome, tested with fourteen tons of water
A book project by Berkay Kars traces Bernard Judge’s experimental dome house in Los Angeles and the questions it posed about American housing.
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- The site says Judge’s July 10, 1959 list asked whether a bank would lend on the dome, alongside questions of livability and cost.
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The timeline connects the Los Angeles project to a forty-foot aluminum sphere raised outside Montreal in 1950, then follows the frame to its hillside site. Judge’s five listed questions range from whether people could live in the dome to whether a bank would finance one. The page also cites 340 archive documents transcribed for the book and identifies source collections for its photographs and records.
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