Drop City

Drop City, the artists' commune founded in 1965 near Trinidad, Colorado, celebrated as the first hippie commune and for its cluster of geodesic domes and "zomes" built from car-top steel and other salvage.

Drop City took Fuller's dome geometry out of the patent office and onto the mesa, improvising cheap, buildable shelter from scrap. Its residents — including the artist Clark Richert — experimented with dome and zome forms, and Steve Baer developed the zome there before founding Zomeworks. Fuller himself awarded the commune a "Dymaxion Award."

Role in Fuller's world

Drop City is the emblem of Fuller's geometry in its countercultural, owner-builder phase — the place where the geodesic dome became a symbol of do-it-yourself, off-grid living and entered the Whole Earth imagination.

See Also

• Clark Richert (Clark Richert) — co-founder and geometric artist
• Steve Baer (Steve Baer) — developed the zome at Drop City

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work anchors this organization.