Richard Buckminster Fuller extensive body of work seems to be rediscovered by every new generation, and as such his ideas and attitude still radiate the same profound radicalism as it had in the 1930s and 1940s. Therefore it was interesting to lecture and discuss the man and his universe in a setting (the Design Academy) where science and technology is often a secondary or even tertiary point of interest.
9. 26% of earth’s surface is dry land.
85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.
86% of all dry land shown is above equator.
The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.
All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.
“United we stand, divided we fall”
is correct mentally and spiritually but
falacious physically or materially.
2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80
years.
Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928
Sunday, June 21, 2009
18. “Ferro-concrete architecture may be likened
unto the plastic cocoon of the archaic worm
from which will emerge the 4D butterfly.”
Sunday, June 21, 2009
19. dimaxion
dynamism maximum ions
“it just emerged”
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52. “In December of 1950 the prototype of a specialized
geodesic structure was built in Montreal. When the
structure was completed we looked up at the blue sky
through this thing and began to realize that something
very pleasantly exiting was happening to us. We knew
that it was light, knew that it was strong, but we did
not know that it was going to do just that to a blue sky.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Sunday, June 21, 2009