Title & Author:

The story of a quest / [presented by] Richard Buckminster Fuller (Fuller & Sadao Inc.).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Buckminster Fuller -- Prosthetic Hand Made In 1961 -- Top: Pyramid At Giza. Bottom: Timber-Framed House Under Construction -- Early Steel-Framed Structures In Chicago -- Suspension Bridge, Cologne -- Left: Closest Packing Of Spheres. Right: Micro-Animal Structures Seen Through A Microscope -- Left: Diagram. Right: Buckminster Fuller In Paris, 1965, Supervising Structures At The UIA Exhibition Of His World Design Science Decade -- Left: Diagram. Right: Tensegrity Icosahedron -- Left: Title Page Of Buckminster Fuller's First Geodesic Dome Patent. Right: Earliest Large, 93 Foot Diameter, Dome For Ford. 1953 -- Model Of Cube Strengthened By Tetrahedron -- Left: Dymaxion House 1927. Right: Plan, Isometric & Elevation Published In 1929 By Harvard Society Of Contemporary Art. Model -- Dymaxion House 1944 As Finally Assembled At Wichita -- Top: Drawings Of Dymaxion House 1944. Bottom: The Total Structure. Airflow -- Left: Dymaxion Prefabricated Bathroom. Right: Drawing As Patented 1938. Model -- Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 1940 -- 1941. Erection Was From Top Down -- Large Helicopter Carrying A 3-Helicopter Geodesic Hangar, 55 Foot Diameter, For US Marine Corps, 1954 -- First Geodesic Radome, 30 Foot Diameter, Mount Washington -- Geodesic Radome For US Airforce, Greenland -- All-Steel Geodesic Dome, 384 Foot Diameter, For Union Tank Car Co., Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1958 -- The Climatron, St. Louis. Aluminium Truss Geodesic Dome, With Acrylic Skin -- The USA Pavilion At Expo 67 Montreal -- Study For Geodesic Tensegrity Dome, 2 Mile Diameter, Over A Section Of Manhattan Island -- Wood & Plastic Geodesic Dome, 30 Foot Diameter, Heli-Lifted By US Marine Corps, 1954.

Summary:

Richard Buckminster Fuller, who was born in 1895, committed himself in 1927 to the service of all humanity, especially "to reforming the human environment by developing tools which cope more effectively and economically with evolutionary challenges, in concert with the proposition that Nature is always giving off energies, and is therefore continually transforming the environment". He set out over half a century ago to discover "what one little individual by himself could do for humanity". The present recording (distilled from a talk he gave at the International Design Conference at Aspen, Colorado, in June 1980) gives some idea of the breath taking nature of this quest. He says that he now has "a large logistic control of environment all around the world" by which we will be able "to phase out the use of fossil fuels and atomic energy". And in the realm of construction: "There are already 200,000 geodesic domes around the world, most of them in places where no other structures would do at all. We are on the brink of being able to air-deliver domes wherever we want". Like his early Dymaxion House, these will be self-sufficient autonomous units: "We have reached the dead end of the old way of building buildings". After his talk Professor Fuller continued to travel the world, sharing his knowledge with whoever sought it.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Geodesic domes.
Architecture Esthétique.
Dômes géodésiques.
geodesic domes.

Added entries:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983, narrator.