Category Archives: Geodesics

Architectural Cyborgs – Nanotechnology and the Potential for Living Architecture

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

The real destiny of the machine [is] to merge itself with natural organisms. -       Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968 Prelude: In 1928, R. Buckminster Fuller presented the design for his Dymaxion House to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) … Continue reading →

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Domes, Films and Toys: The Role of Education in the Works of Bucky Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

In Architecture or Techno-utopia:  Politics After Modernism, Felicity Scott maps the migration of military technologies into the popular imagination, focusing specifically on how these technologies became potent tools for the counterculture of the 1960s.  Not surprisingly, her lens is focused … Continue reading →

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Buckminster Fuller, Mixed Metaphors and the Radiolarian

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

With the introduction of “Buckyballs” and “Fullerenes” into the scientific lexicon in 1985, Fuller’s conquest of the molecular milieu seemed complete, and his system of geodesic design gained the full weight of scientific legitimation.  This kind of migration, from the … Continue reading →

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