Word: tobia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market is literally exploding," says Engineer Peter Tobia, whose New Jersey-based Geodesic Structures, Inc. sells prefabricated domes (average price: $12,000) nationally through a network of 40 builder-dealers. Tobia, who says his firm receives 400 written inquiries a week, expects to double the number of dealer outlets this year and sell some 200 units (about $2.2 million worth). Peter Tobia's brother Ronald, who owns a separate company, Building Concepts, Inc., that builds finished dome-iciles in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, anticipates sales of up to 100 domes in its area for a total of some...
...contrast to the mid-'60s, when most dome homes were funky, patched-up symbols of the counterculture, the average buyer is relatively well-to-do and well educated. Says Geodesic Structures' Peter Tobia: "The people we're getting today are the presold market that knows about Bucky Fuller. We're building a basically middle, upper-middle-class American housing unit that is a natural and intelligent alternative to expensive and inefficient housing...
...Jacobs played pretty well, and Tobia, Frankle and I really outplayed ourselves," Leverett said yesterday. "Only Sandy Zabell didn't play as well as expected, and he's out of practice...