Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANYONE willing to go along with the proposition that a house is an Energetic Environment Valve, and that man is, among other things, "a self-balancing 28-jointed adapter-base biped" will find himself right at home with Richard Buckminster Fuller. Bucky Fuller is a super-technologist whose mission in life is to help the human race do more & more with less & less until, at the ultimate, it can do everything with nothing. Variously classified as a scientist, engineer, philosopher and architect, but innocent of formal education beyond a matter of months at Harvard College, which callously bounced...
...energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front porch; an airplane is a powerized, high-speed room. "Bucky thinks the individual should be able to exist by just plugging himself into the landscape," a friend said recently...
...Bucky Fuller's name was once best known for its association with the Dymaxion House, the first version of which was a life valve designed to hang from a central mast containing an elevator. But today this once revolutionary idea is old stuff, and superseded by the Fuller Geodesic Dome. The dome is as big as one likes, made up of small spherical triangles pinned together. In appropriate sizes, it can be made to shelter anything from newlyweds to a railway terminal with less weight and hence less cost, and, Bucky hopes, be more resistant to hurricanes or atomic...
...spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when the attempt was made to connect them to the surging voltages of everyday life. This has never troubled Bucky. No matter what happens...
...thinner than he used to be, Bucky Fuller today presents a kindly and tranquil aspect to the world. His build is stubby; from a thick neck there rises a handsomely shaped skull:his hair is well-implanted, white and crew-cropped; his light eyes swim hugely behind the thick trifocals a man must wear who is too farsighted to cope unaided with the close at hand. As he warms to a subject, an initial shyness disappears; his ideas pop up faster & faster, as interminably as bubbles from a test tube held in a hot blue flame. Two hours may pass...