Index
1 Afghanistan, 125–126
2 ‘‘Air Ocean World Town Plan,’’ 56
3 American Institute of Architects, 64, 150
4 American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company, 69
5 Andrews, Grandma, 1,11,43
6 Applewhite, E. J., 155,156
7 ‘‘Aquapolis,’’ 148
8 Armour and Company, 23–34,37,41 Astor, Vincent, 37, 38
9 Bear Island, Maine, 1–3, q-10, 22, 23, 66,114, 131–133,150,151
10 Beech Aircraft, no, 112
11 Bellinger, Commander Patrick, 31, 76
12 Billings, Marian, 155
13 Birch Lodge, 11
14 Black Mountain College, 116–118
15 Board of Economic Welfare, 99 brake drum, 89
16 ‘‘Bucky’s Bubble’’ (Expo ‘67 U.S. Pavilion), 141–142,156–157
17 Burgess, W. Starling, 16,80
18 Butler Company, 95
19Chicago Evening Post, 54,65,72
20 Chicago World’s Fair, 70,72–73,85–86
21 Chronofile, 130
22 Chrysler, Walter, 88
23 ‘‘comprehensive anticipatory design science,’’ 114
24 compression strength, 51–53 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 159–160 copper, cycles of, 93
25 Dalton School, 89,99
26 Dartmouth College, 115–116
27 Dartmouth Conference, 139–140
28 D.E.W. (Distant Early Warning Line), 124
29 DeForest, Dr. Lee, 34
30 Delos Symposium, 150
31 Depression, the, 67–68,79 dirigible. See zeppelin Doxiadis, Constantine, 150 Dymaxion (trademark),63–64 Dymaxion Bathroom, 69,89–90 Dymaxion Car: test run, 82–83; at 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, 85; superior design of, 85; accident, 86; effect of false publicity on, 86; obstacles to production of, 88; exhibited nationwide in show prepared by Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, 153. See also 4D transport, zoomobile
32 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (D.D.U.), (steel cylinder for housing): from idea to production, 95–97; wide use of by military, 97–98
33 Dymaxion House: origin of trademark, 63–64; mass production a threat to architects, 64; model of one-piece bathroom in, 69; estimated cost of prototype for Chicago World’s Fair, 72–73; new transport needed for, 76–78. See also 4D buildings
34 Dymaxion Map, 106–109
35Eagle Boat 15, 37
36 Einstein, Albert, 91–92
37 Energetic Geometry, 106, 115. See also Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, Synergetics
38 energy conservation, 154
39 ‘‘energy slaves,’’ 93
40Environment (poem), 136 ‘‘environmental designing,’’ 51 eyesight, 5–6
41 Expo ‘67. See ‘‘Bucky’s Bubble’’
42 floating city, 147–148
43 ‘‘fog gun,’’ 60
44 Ford Motor Company, 120–122
45Fortune magazine, 93
46 4D Company, 57
47 4D essay, 50–53
48 4D buildings: basic ideas of building and materials, 51–56; engineering principles of compression and tension, 53; Chicago Evening Post article, ‘‘Toward a New Architecture,’’ 54; ‘‘universal design,’’ 54–56; automation of household chores, 60; ‘‘fog gun,’’ 60; foresees photoelectric cell, 60; use of aluminum for buildings, 62; model of 4D House shown at Chicago Home Owners’ Exhibition, 63; model shown at American Institute of Architects convention, 64; future, 66. See also Dymaxion House
49 4D transport: building of prototype, 80–81; new ideas in, 82; car model acclaimed atNational Automobile Show, 78, 79; description of, 82. See also Dymaxion Car, zoomobile
50 Fuller, Alexandra (first daughter), 35.3<5, 40
51 Fuller, Allegra (later Mrs. Robert Snyder), (second daughter), 57, 66,67,76; bom, 44; Dalton School in New York, 89, 99; Madeira School in Washington, D.C., 100; married, 131; her children, Alexandra and Jaime, 131–132
52 Fuller, Mrs. Caroline Andrews (mother), 5,13, 16, 17, 21, 38, 100
53 Fuller, Leslie (later Mrs. Edward P. Lamed), (sister), 6,24
54 Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt), 6,155
55 Fuller, Richard (father), 5; illness and death, 12–13
56 Fuller, Mrs. Richard Buckminster (see Anne Hewlett), 32, 33, 42, 45,57; Alexandra born, 35–36; seaplane vacation with Bucky, 38–39; Alexandra dies, 40; Allegra bom, 44; lean years in Chicago and New York, 46–67; joins Bucky in Washington, D.C., 99; silver wedding anniversary, 100; finances prototype of geodesic dome, 117; accident, 142–144; 58th wedding anniversary, 155–156. See also Hewlett, Anne
57 Fuller, Rosamond (Rosy), (later Mrs. Alphonse Kenison), (sister), 11,80,89,108–109,114,156
58 Fuller, Timothy (great-grandfather)
59 Fuller, Wolcott (Wooly), (brother), 3,6, 27,60, 155
60 General Electric, 60
61 geodesic dome: preparatory work, 115; Anne finances, 117; source of name, 118; mathematics and geometric principles of, 118–119; set up and tested at Black Mountain College, 116–118; Miniature Earth at Cornell University, 120; Ford Motor Company first client for, 121–122; patented, 122; global use of, as military shelter, 124–125; worldwide demand for, 123–124; different types of, 128; licenses for, 130. See also ‘‘Bucky’s Bubble’’
62 geometry. See Energetic Geometry, Nature’s geometry, Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, Synergetics Gibson, Dana, 152
63 Gibson, Leslie (Mrs. Dana Gibson), (niece), 151
64 Gleaves, Admiral, 33
65 ‘‘Great Crash,’’ 67. See also Depression
66 Hardie, Jim, 38, 155
67 Harvard University, 17, 18–20, 21, 23> 135–136, 145
68 Hewlett, Anglesea (Anx), (sister-in-law), 24
69 Hewlett, Anne (later Bucky’s wife), engaged, 24–26; married, 27–29. See also Fuller, Mrs. Richard Buckminster
70 Hewlett, J. Monroe (father-in-law), 25,40,41, 78, too; invents building block, 40; sets up Stockade Building System with Bucky, 41–43; painter of Grand Central Station murals, 78
71 Hewlett, Mrs. J. Monroe (mother-in-law), 25,43
72 Hewlett, Roger (brother-in-law), 66
73 icosahedron, 102
74Inca, 29
75Intuition, 136
76 Kelly-Springfield Truck Company, 37
77 Kenison, Alphonse (brother-in-law), 108–109
78 Kenison, Kariska (niece), 139
79 Kenison, Rosamond. See Fuller, Rosamond
80Kitty Foyle, 95
81 ‘‘Kleenex House,’’ 123
82 LeSourd, Homer, 15,100,101 ‘‘livingry,’’ 51
83 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Jr., 5
84 Malthus, Thomas, 48
85 ‘‘mechanical jellyfish,’’ 2–3
86 Mechanical Wing, 94
87 Milton Academy, 12,14–17
88 Miniature Earth, 120
89 ‘‘more with less,’’ 91
90 Moore, Don. See tensegrity structures
91 Morley, Christopher, 98,91,95
92 Museum of Modem Art, 8
93Nagala, 131
94 Nature, 2, 3, 10,48, 83, 114,159. See also Nature’s geometry
95 Nature’s geometry: Bucky’s search for, 32; Bucky’s experiments in, 101–103; tetrahedron the basis of Nature’s structuring, 104–105; tetrahedron the basis of geodesic dome, 118; tetrahedron in Octet truss, 119
96 Navy, career in: in World War I, 27,29–36; Naval Reserve, 37
97New York Times, 99
98Nine Chains to the Moon, 91–93
99 Noguchi, Isamu, 69–70, 79, 80
100 octahedron, 102,119
101 Octet truss, 8,119,122
102 Phelps Dodge Corporation, 89,93
103 Phi Beta Kappa, 145
104 Pierce, Ada, 36
105 Pierce, Dr., 13
106 Pierce, Lincoln (Line), 8, 9, 27, 29, 36,51
107 poetry, 135–136 polyhedron, 102,107,109 prototype, 72,81,88
108 Quinn, Jim, 156
109 radome, 124,138
110 Rock Hall, 29
111 Romany Marie’s, 68
112 ‘‘Rowing Needle,’’ 150
113 Sadao, Shoji, 141
114 San Quentin Prison, 133–135
115 ‘‘scientific dwelling machine,’’ 57,63 Shelter: magazine published by
116117Bucky, 73; his ideas on ecology in, 74; new kind of transport in, 75; closed, 74–75
118 ‘‘shelter tailors,’’ 41
119 Shoriki, Matsutaro, 146–147
120 Snelson, Kenneth. See tensegrity structures
121 Snyder, Alexandra (granddaughter), 131–132
122 Snyder, Jaime (grandson), 131–132, 152.i59
123 Snyder, Robert (son-in-law), 131 Southern Illinois University, 133 ‘‘Spaceship Earth,’’ 139 spheres, closest packing of, 103
124 Spongee, 51
125 Stockade Building System, 40–42, 43,45
126 suicide, thoughts of, 46
127 Synergetic-Energetic Geometry,
128 119, 136, 156. See also Energetic
129 Geometry, Synergetics
130Synergetics, 160; publication of, 155 synergetics and viruses, 136–138 synergy, 119
131 technology, 11 tensegrity structures, 151–152,156 tensile strength, 51–53 tetrahedron. See Nature’s geometry Time magazine, 123,138
132Transport, 33
133 ‘‘universal design,’’ 54,56
134 Universe, 6,115,130,132,135,154
135 University City Science Center, 152
136 Vector Equilibrium, 102, 105. See also vectors
137 vectors, 31,100
138 viruses. See synergetics and viruses
139We go, 27
140 Wichita House: project to solve postwar labor problems, 109–110; model on view, 111; great demand for, 112; problems preventing mass production of, 113
141 Wilder, Thornton, 115
142 World Energy Map, 93
143 World Game, 149,158
144 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 74
145 zeppelin, use in house delivery, 56 zoomobile (auto-airplane), 78–79.
146See also 4D transport; Dymaxion Car