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...life thereafter, one of Fuller's abiding preoccupations was how to mass-produce housing the way Ford made cars. He came up with the fully portable Dymaxion House, a metal dwelling suspended by cables from a central mast that held all the plumbing and wiring. He also produced a three-wheel Dymaxion Vehicle--the Whitney has borrowed the last surviving one--and even a Dymaxion Bathroom, which could be manufactured and shipped as a single modular unit. None of those worked out as manufacturing ideas in his lifetime, but they left behind proposals, plausible ones, for the future to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buckminster Fuller: The Big Thinker | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...Ideally, we should abandon the idea of continents altogether, turning from the familiar, but distorted, Mercator projection to a Dymaxion map. The commonly used Mercator projection developed in 1568 maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry professor and visionary, R. Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth’s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: A Continent Divided | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

...20th century architecture, though they approached the question with their usual indifference to public taste. The pioneer modernist Le Corbusier wrote a famous essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're All Absolutely Prefabulous | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...inspection of these plans reveals a myriad of details: built in closets for Anne Brown’s hats, a soda-fountain in the children’s playroom and a sound-proof music room. In addition, the home had its own meteorological equipment and state-of-the-art Dymaxion bathrooms—fancy one-piece copper bathrooms...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Architectural Atlantis | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

Then began his years of high creativity. He designed the Dymaxion House, an easily transported structure with roofs hung from a central mast and with outer walls of glass. He sought to give the design to the American Institute of Architects, which haughtily rejected all such "peas-in-the-pod-like reproducible designs." Years later the institute gave Fuller, who never formally studied architecture, a gold medal for his contributions to the field. In the early 1930s he produced the three-wheeled Dymaxion automobile, which attained 120-m.p.h. speeds using a standard 90-h.p. engine. The car was never manufactured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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