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...more architecture than a piano is music" was a model of a queer pearshaped house hung on a pole, exhibited in Manhattan for the first time last week. It was the latest development of Richard Buckminster Fuller's famed "dymaxion house" (from "dynamics" and "maximum service...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat...
Fuller spoke last year at the University under the auspices of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Arts on his "Dymaxion House", and has previously had an exhibition at the Society's galleries in the Harvard Cooperative Building...
Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the "Dymaxion House", a radical type of house designed to meet living conditions of the future, will speak before the New England section of the Harvard Engineering Society at the Harvard Club of Boston Wednesday night at 7.45 o'clock...
Fuller, who will speak on the subject. "Scientific Simplicity, the Essential Material Characteristic of an Impending Architecture", will demonstrate his talk with a model of the "Dymaxion House", and pictures showing the application of new and revolutionary ideas to the business of everyday living...