A page dated June 29, 1954 by R. B. Fuller building construction. Figure 1 lies to the left of a grid hemisphere with number notations, 20, 21, 22, 25. Below is a gridded sphere with number notations 20, 21, 22, 25 with Figure 2 to the bottom left. Text typed slightly over sphere with Inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller.

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Book Illustration, Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic Dome Construction, figure 1 and 2

This is a book illustration. It was written by R. Buckminster Fuller. It is dated 1958. Its medium is quadrat print. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department.

In Buckminster Fuller’s own words, “the forms we see in geodesic structures are synergetic, which is to say that they are visible in mathematical principle only and only as the result of the interaction of a complex of functions.” He argues that no individual industrial function is visible because any structural member of a geodesic dome can be in tension at one time and in compression at another. These opposite actions and reactions are invisible as the dome itself “remain[s] poised apparently serene in a hurricane.” Thus, both form and function are invisible

It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Model Of Hyperbolic Space (USA)
wool.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2011-16-1

Dome-shaped Architectural Staircase Model

Dome-shaped Architectural Staircase Model
walnut and beechwood.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-11-3

Drawing, Design for a Woven Textile with Dome or Planet Shapes

Drawing, Design for a Woven Textile with Dome or Planet Shapes
crayon on coated tracing paper.
Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia Elsesser, The Trude Guermonprez Archives.
1993-121-98

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A digital print of a highly colorful model using various materials against a black ground. The model is shaped like a futuristic “starship” with bright pink pliable gridded materials illuminated by bright white light emanating from two built structures shaped like domes with open centers. Attached is a blue purple dome with a wide opening and a gridded cylindrical red form within. On the bottom left is a design made from a small scale grid and solid black spaces in curved shapes with a hockey puck shaped object in the center.

Sunset Boulevard Case Studies, 2018
various materials.
Courtesy of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
MOBILITY.015

"Verdino" Birdcage
glass, brass, plexiglass.
Gift of Göran F. Holmquist.
1965-50-1-a/tt

Its dimensions are

H x W: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/75uHR/
Accession Number 32.2019.2
Object ID 68776043