Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing “more with less” credo, Fuller’s designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth’s resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller’s integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography—the Dymaxion House, ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle, ca.1933 , Wichita House, ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map, ca. 1943.
Architect Stephanie Smith, founder of the L.A.-based green design studio Ecoshack, and exhibition co-curator Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller’s engagement with architecture and design science.
Join art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson for a walk through of Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe.
Celluloid, cardboard, and helium balloons are among the materials that constitute the fabric of Tobias Putrih’s inventive sculptural environments. In this talk, he looks towards the Buckminster Fuller exhibition.
Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks towards our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.
Exploring the bilingual territory of border zones and the possibilities for habitation of such liminal spaces, architect Teddy Cruz has been building public housing on the border of southern California and Tijuana for years. His practice is committed to the architectural promise of local materials and to the creative potential inherent in hybrid global communities.
Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks to our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.
Exploring modernist notions of the grid, urban planning, and domestic space, Toronto-based artist and architect An Te Liu works across the realms of the functional and fine art, often energizing forms by engaging their opposite. He reveals the sinister or even the whimsical within the most perfect of plans, shapes, and objects by tweaking utopian vocabularies.
Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks towards our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.
