A necessary ruin : the story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome / [produced by] Evan Mather.

[Los Angeles, CA] : Hand Crafted Films, ©2009.

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

When it was completed in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world. Ostensibly designed by the visionary design scientist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller, this geodesic dome was, at 384 feet in diameter, the first large scale example of this building type. A Necessary Ruin relates the compelling narrative of the dome's history via interviews with architects, engineers, preservationists, media, and artists; animated sequences demonstrating the operation of the facility; and hundreds of rare photographs taken during the dome's conception, construction, decline, and demolition.

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Union Tank Car (Firm)
Railroads Buildings and structures Louisiana Baton Rouge.
Infrastructures ferroviaires Louisiane Baton Rouge.
Buildings
Railroads Buildings and structures
Baton Rouge (La.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Louisiana Baton Rouge

Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Optical disks.
DVDs.

Mather, Evan, 1970-

Localisation: Bibliothèque main av 277026
Cote: NA44.F967.25 U45 2009
Statut: Disponible