Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'geodesic'
June 24, 2008
The great porous globe that has suddenly landed among the ivy and trees of verdant LaGuardia Place turns out to be a structural model for a radical type of affordable, prefabricated housing. This single eye-catching installation -- Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome -- marks the opening of a a week of Buckminster Fuller celebrations in NYC. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), known as "Bucky," was a pathbreaking architect, inventor, and author who believed innovative design could......
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