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A page from the Airform marketing brochure “The completion of several Airform buildings proved the effectual use of the materials and the construction method. Based on these achievements Neff’s attorneys suggested in 1945 that he turn the Airform company into a corporation to generate funding and reach a larger market. He called the new firm the Airform International Construction Company (AICC). By 1949 the company had published an extensive, thirty-one page brochure that advertised Airform as “the modern low-cost construction method for concrete buildings,” explaining the construction process with schematics, renderings, and photographs of the completed work, as well as forthcoming designs. Key projects, such as bubble houses in Virginia and Senegal, storage bins in Arizona, and military housing in Pakistan were included.” From No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff 

A page from the Airform marketing brochure

“The completion of several Airform buildings proved the effectual use of the materials and the construction method. Based on these achievements Neff’s attorneys suggested in 1945 that he turn the Airform company into a corporation to generate funding and reach a larger market. He called the new firm the Airform International Construction Company (AICC). By 1949 the company had published an extensive, thirty-one page brochure that advertised Airform as “the modern low-cost construction method for concrete buildings,” explaining the construction process with schematics, renderings, and photographs of the completed work, as well as forthcoming designs. Key projects, such as bubble houses in Virginia and Senegal, storage bins in Arizona, and military housing in Pakistan were included.”

From No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff 

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