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BUCKMINSTER FULLER BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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BOOKS BY FULLER |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, PART C |
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Illustrations 261-372 |
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TENSEGRITY
GEODESIC DOMES
| 261 |
RBF in his
Greenwich Village, NY, Studio with his 1st Tensegrity Model, a Mast & Wire
Wheel (1927) |
164 |
| 262 |
RBF Holding an
Aspension Model, Wichita, KS, USA (1944) |
165 |
| 263 |
RBF & Man Holding
an Aspension Model on which a Young Boy is Standing, Wichita, KS, USA (1944) |
" |
| 264 |
RBF Holding his
First Tensegrity Mast Model, Black Mountain College, NC, USA (1949) |
" |
| 265 |
RBF Holding Model
of a Tensegrity Mast Built by Kenneth Snelson (1949) |
" |
| 266 |
Full-Scale
Tensegrity Mast, N. Carolina State College, Raleigh, NC, USA (1950) |
" |
| 267 |
Full-Scale
Tensegrity Mast, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (1953) |
166 |
| 268 |
Tensegrity
Tetrahedron Model by Francesco della Sala at University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI, USA (1952) |
167 |
| 269 |
Tensegrity
Octahedron Model by Ted Pope in Toronto, ON, Canada (1957) |
" |
| 270 |
Tensegrity
Icosahedron Model by RBF at Black Mountain College, NC, USA (1949) |
" |
| 271 |
Tensegrity Vector
Equilibrium Model by John Moelman at N. Carolina State College, Raleigh, NC,
USA ('51) |
" |
| 272 |
Tensegrity
Tricontahedron Model by Lee Hogden at N. Carolina State College, Raleigh,
NC, USA (1953) |
" |
| 273 |
90-Strut
Tensegrity Enenticontahedron Model Built at Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ, USA (1953) |
168 |
| 274 |
40'-diam,
90-Strut Tensegrity Built at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA (1953) |
" |
| 275 |
270-Strut
Tensegrity Model Built at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
(1953) |
' |
| 276 |
40'-diam,
270-Strut Tensegrity Hemisphere Built at the University of Minnesota,
Duluth, MN, USA (1953) |
" |
| 277 |
Close-Up of
Hollow Polyester Fiberglass 9'6" Struts of 40'-diam Tensegrity Dome, Univ of
Minnesota, Duluth, MN |
" |
| 278 |
RBF Holding a
Tensegrity Tetrahedron Model, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL,
USA (1958) |
169 |
| 279 |
Model of
270-Strut, Unitary Components, Tensegrity Dome,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (1959) |
" |
| 280 |
Model of
270-Strut, Unitary Components, Tensegrity Dome,
MOMA Exhibit, New York, NY, USA (1959) |
" |
OCTET TRUSS
| 281 |
A Section of the
93'-Diam, 8.5 Ton, Aluminum Dome Over the Ford Rotunda Building (1953) |
171 |
| 282 |
A Section of the
3-Way-Grid Octet Truss Used in the Dome of the Ford Rotunda |
172 |
| 283 |
Octet Truss
Models can be Fashioned from Flat Ribbons of Various Materials |
173 |
| 284 |
Octet Truss
Models can be Cohered in Various High Speed Ways |
" |
| 285 |
Octet Truss
Completed Model |
" |
| 286 |
Octet Truss Hubs:
Outside of Rhombic Dodecahedron Clevis Cluster |
" |
| 287 |
Octet Truss Hub:
Inside of Rhombic Dodecahedron Clevis Cluster |
" |
| 288 |
Octet Truss Hubs:
Rhombic Dodecahedron with Face-Mounted Studs Meant to Slip into Tubes |
" |
| 289 |
Octet Truss Hubs:
Male & Female Turbining Type |
" |
| 290 |
Octet Truss Hubs:
Typical Assembly of Rods & Turbine Hub |
" |
| 291 |
Hubless Octet
Truss Continuously Woven from Wire-Like Fencing Structures |
173 |
| 292 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: Assembly of Typical Section |
174 |
| 293 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: Completed Section |
" |
| 294 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: Workman holding 2 Completed Sections by Himself |
" |
| 295 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: Typical View of Roof Assembly Area |
" |
| 296 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: Internal View of Completed Dome |
" |
| 297 |
Ford Rotunda Dome
Construction: External Night View of Completed Dome |
175 |
MINOR INVENTIONS
| 298 |
22' Remountable Tubular Catamaran
Rowing Shell (1947) |
176 |
| 299 |
Circular
Overhead-Trolleyed, Tensionally Supported Telephone, Wichita, KS, USA (1944) |
178 |
| 300 |
Criss-Cross,
Tensionally Supported Table, Wichita, KS, USA (1944) |
" |
| 301 |
RBF's Chrome Steel
Tubing Loveseat (Dec 1931) |
179 |
| 302 |
RBF's Chrome Steel
Tubing Spring Seat (Dec 1931) |
" |
AUTONOMOUS
DWELLING PACKAGES
| 303 |
Model Closed: 25'-Long, 8'-High, 8'-Wide, Legally-Permitted Road Trailer
Package (1948) |
180 |
| 304 |
1st Stage: Model
Developed by RBF's Students at Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, USA |
181 |
| 305 |
2nd Stage:
Complete Inventory of Furniture & Household Apparatus Including Accessories |
" |
| 306 |
3rd Stage: If
Mass Assembled & Delivered Would Cost only 10% of Separately Acquired Method |
" |
| 307 |
Fully Open:
Bedroom, Living Room, Kitchen, 2 Baths = 928 sq ft |
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GEODESIC
DOME INVENTION AND DEVELOPMENT
| 308 |
Unit of Wire
Joins with Identical Components to Form a Triangulated Finite Convexity |
182 |
| 309 |
31 Great Circle
Strut Model by Students of Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, USA (1948) |
" |
| 310 |
31 Great Circle
Pan Model by Students of Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, USA (1948) |
" |
| 311 |
31 Great Circle
Venetian Blind Model of 48' Hemispheric Dome, Black Mountain College, NC,
USA (07-48) |
" |
| 312 |
31 Great Circle
Necklace Dome of Hollow Tubes & Continuous Internal Cables in Folded State |
183 |
| 313 |
31 Great Circle
Necklace Hemispheric Dome Unfolding, Stage 1 |
" |
| 314 |
31 Great Circle
Necklace Hemispheric Dome Unfolding, Stage 2 |
" |
| 315 |
31 Great Circle
Necklace Hemispheric Dome Unfolding, Stage 3 |
" |
| 316 |
31 Great Circle
Necklace Dome Installed in Garden of Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA (Feb
1949) |
" |
| 317 |
Uncovered 31
Great Circle Necklace Hemispheric Dome, Black Mountain College, NC, USA
(Summer 1949) |
184 |
| 318 |
Double-Skinned 31
Great Circle Necklace Hemispheric Dome, Black Mountain College, NC, USA
(Summer '49) |
" |
| 319 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Claims Page |
185 |
| 320 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 1 & 2 |
" |
| 321 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 3, 4, 5 & 6 |
" |
| 322 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 7, 8 & 9 |
" |
| 323 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 10, 11 & 12 |
" |
| 324 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 13, 13a, 13b & 14 |
" |
| 325 |
Fuller's 1954
Geodesic Dome Patent, Figures 15, 16, 17 & 18 |
" |
| 326 |
First 50'-diam
Tube & Skin Dome, Dec 1950 (Fuller Research Foundation, Montreal, PQ, Canada) |
186 |
| 327 |
Skinned 50'-diam
Tube & Skin Dome Erected in Snowy Canadian Field (Ted Pope Helped) |
" |
| 328 |
Close-Up of
Unskinned Dome Built by Jeffrey Lindsay & Don Richter, Montreal, PQ, Canada
(1950) |
" |
| 329 |
2-Frequency Tube
& Skin Tent Dome for Arctic Institute Used on Baffin's Land, Labrador (1951) |
" |
| 330 |
20'-diam,
16-Frequency, 3/4 Sphere, Welded Steel Wire Dome by RBF & D Richter,
Lawrence, NY, USA (1951) |
187 |
| 331 |
First Wood Strut
Dome by Zane Yost, Mass Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1951) |
" |
| 332 |
First Wood &
Plastic Dome by Jeffrey Lindsay, Montreal, PQ, Canada (1951) |
" |
| 333 |
Automated Cotton
Mill Dome Model with Octet Truss Floors by RBF & Students, N Carolina State
College (1951) |
" |
| 334 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Assembled in 1.5 hrs in Aspen, CO, USA
(1952) |
188 |
| 335 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Close-Up, Aspen, CO, USA (1952) |
" |
| 336 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Covered with Plastic, Aspen, CO, USA (June
1953) |
" |
| 337 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Being Reassembled in Woods Hole, MA, USA
(July 1953) |
" |
| 338 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Covered in Woods Hole, MA, USA (July 1953) |
" |
| 339 |
36'-diam Dome by
University of Minnesota Students, Night Shot in Woods Hole, MA, USA (July
1953) |
" |
| 340 |
55'-diam Wood &
Mylar hyperbolic Parabola Restaurant Owned by G Peterson, Woods Hole, MA,
USA (1954) |
189 |
| 341 |
1st 36'-diam Wood
& Mylar Hemisphere by Students of University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
(March 1953) |
" |
| 342 |
36'-diam "Growth
House" by Students of N Carolina State College, Raleigh, NC, USA (1953) |
" |
| 343 |
36'-diam
Double-Skin "Growth House" Slid Upward to Activate 18" Accordion-Screen
Ventilators (1953) |
" |
| 344 |
Dome Built by
Students of University of Michigan Architecture Department, Ann Arbor, MI,
USA (1954) |
190 |
| 345 |
Dome Built by
Students of Washington University Architecture Department, St Louis, MO, USA
(1954) |
" |
| 346 |
Unmoving "Dynamic
Dome" Designed to Admit Air While Warding off Rain, U Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI, USA ('54) |
" |
| 347 |
Moving "Dynamic
Dome", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (1954) |
" |
| 348 |
Dome for Marines
by Architecture Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA,
USA (1954) |
191 |
| 349 |
85'-diam Wood
Strut, Polyester Fiberglass Skin Dome Barn by Jeffrey Lindsay, Montreal, PQ,
Canada (1954) |
" |
| 350 |
Test-Assembled
42'-diam 5/8 Sphere Pool Cover Dome, Aspen, CO, USA (1954) |
" |
| 351 |
Installed
42'-diam 5/8 Sphere Pool Cover Dome, Aspen, CO, USA (1954) |
" |
| 352 |
Model of a
167'diam Geodesic Dome for Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
(1955) |
192 |
| 353 |
Aluminum Spitz
Planetarium Co Dome for US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
(1957) |
" |
| 354 |
114'-diam
Pavilion Dome for Winthrop Rockefeller's Winrock Estate, Hot Springs, AK,
USA (1956) |
193 |
| 355 |
'56 Mid-Continent
Jubilee 100' Pavilion, St Louis, MO; Now Skating Rink at Northland Shopping
Center, Detroit, MI |
" |
| 356 |
Model of Proposed
Ovaloid Geodesic Hockey Rink for Andover Academy, Andover, MA, USA (1955) |
" |
| 357 |
Students Sitting
upon 10'diam "Playdome" in Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
USA (1957) |
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SKYBREAK
DWELLINGS GEODESIC DOMES
| 358 |
Exterior View of
"Skybreak Dwelling" Model for US Air Force (1949) |
194 |
| 359 |
Interior View of
"Skybreak Dwelling" Model for US Air Force (1949) |
" |
| 360 |
Aerial View of
Another Model Built at Black Mountain College, NC, USA (1949) |
" |
| 361 |
Model of
"Skybreak Dwelling" Built by Students of MIT for MOMA Exhibit, New York, NY,
USA (1952) |
195 |
| 362 |
Drawing #1 by
John Rauma of "Skybreak Dwelling", Study by Students of MIT, Cambridge, MA,
USA (1952) |
" |
| 363 |
Drawing #2 by
John Rauma of "Skybreak Dwelling", Study by Students of MIT, Cambridge, MA,
USA (1952) |
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FORD ROTUNDA
GEODESIC DOME
| 364 |
Overview of Ford River Rouge
Plant with Uncovered Rotunda in Foreground |
196 |
| 365 |
Model of Assembly
Operation on Rotunda Roof (1953) |
197 |
| 366 |
RBF with Model of
the Dome & its Octahedral Components (1953) |
" |
| 367 |
Stresses Revealed
by Polarized Plastic Model Made by Students of the Univ of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI, USA |
" |
| 368 |
Dome Assembled
from the Top Down Like a Rotating Umbrella (1953) |
" |
| 369 |
Close-Up of
Workmen Assembling Components while Standing on Temporary Bridge (1953) |
198 |
| 370 |
Dome Completed 2
Days Before Deadline (April 1953) |
" |
| 371 |
View from Beneath
the Completed Dome after Installation of the Polyester Fiberglass Skin |
" |
| 372 |
Life
Magazine's 180-Degree Wide-Angle Lens Photograph |
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