Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house is being shown this week at the rooms of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art: When the first rumors of its marvels began to circulate in Cambridge, there was more cynicism and discountenance than even at Brancusi's Golden--Bird, or at the Modern French pictures. Consider a house which is primarily a machine to live in, which can be manufactured in mass, assembled at service stations and delivered in 24 hours, costing as a minimum $500 a ton. Its translucent watts is of casein, its inflatable doors and floors, its collapsible mast, its bathroom...
...present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence, all depend on the Dymaxion House. Mr. Fuller has created the possibility of a new civilization, a new world of people, one only wonders with Shaw what man would do with his new found leisure...
Indeed Mr. Fuller has reinvented all the appurtenances of worksday life. The only thing left for him now, is the discovery of that elixir, by which man can double his span--so that he may satisfactorily enjoy the inevitable Millenium...
...millennium in architecture has been reached in the invention of the Dymaxion House, designed by Buck minister Fuller, of Chicago and exhibited this week by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art in room 204 of the Harvard Cooperative Building...
National opinion is simply the sum of the opinions of individuals-with a fuller under-standing between individuals there will be fewer national differences...