Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time


	Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time

wildcat

7-6-2008 1:07 PM

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buckminster fuller, domes, earth, architecture

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9fa1bc36-8d83-4bae-aa40-e296287b1e7c/DDCD6915-047F-414E-B6F9-4E260CBEB864/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04full.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04full.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04full.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin"><P>Cold war culture has been back in style for a while now, at least in architecture circles. The clarity of its Manichaean worldview, in which everyone seemed to know who the bad guys were, is a comforting refuge from our current ideological confusion. And the era’s brooding architectural monuments look pretty good compared with the Disney-inspired visual noise that has invaded so many American cities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04full.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/4ADA4780-A686-4477-9F64-4AD8C502E11F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04full.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin">So “Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe,” a timely new exhibition at the <A title="More articles about Whitney Museum of American Art" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/whitney_museum_of_american_art/index.html?inline=nyt-org" linkindex="43" set="yes">Whitney Museum of American Art</A>, is likely to stir waves of nostalgia. For people of my generation, who spent much of their childhoods clambering over jungle gyms inspired by Fuller’s geodesic domes, his architecture embodies the values of an era when it was still possible to believe that society was gliding steadily toward a better future. 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