Index
3 Afghanistan, 125–126
4 ‘‘Air Ocean World Town Plan,’’ 56
5 American Institute of Architects, 64, 150
6 American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company, 69
7 Andrews, Grandma, 1,11,43
8 Applewhite, E. J., 155,156
9 ‘‘Aquapolis,’’ 148
10 Armour and Company, 23–34,37,41 Astor, Vincent, 37, 38
11 Bear Island, Maine, 1–3, q-10, 22, 23, 66,114, 131–133,150,151
12 Beech Aircraft, no, 112
13 Bellinger, Commander Patrick, 31, 76
14 Billings, Marian, 155
15 Birch Lodge, 11
16 Black Mountain College, 116–118
17 Board of Economic Welfare, 99 brake drum, 89
18 ‘‘Bucky’s Bubble’’ (Expo ‘67 U.S. Pavilion), 141–142,156–157
19 Burgess, W. Starling, 16,80
20 Butler Company, 95
21 Chicago Evening Post, 54,65,72
22 Chicago World’s Fair, 70,72–73,85–86
23 Chronofile, 130
24 Chrysler, Walter, 88
25 ‘‘comprehensive anticipatory design science,’’ 114
26 compression strength, 51–53 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 159–160 copper, cycles of, 93
27 Dalton School, 89,99
28 Dartmouth College, 115–116
29 Dartmouth Conference, 139–140
30 D.E.W. (Distant Early Warning Line), 124
31 DeForest, Dr. Lee, 34
32 Delos Symposium, 150
33 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
34 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (D.D.U.), (steel cylinder for housing): from idea to production, 95–97; wide use of by military, 97–98
35 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
36 Dymaxion Map, 106–109
37 Eagle Boat 15, 37
38 Einstein, Albert, 91–92
39 Energetic Geometry, 106, 115. See also Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, Synergetics
40 energy conservation, 154
41 ‘‘energy slaves,’’ 93
42 Environment (poem), 136 ‘‘environmental designing,’’ 51 eyesight, 5–6
43 Expo ‘67. See ‘‘Bucky’s Bubble’’
44 floating city, 147–148
45 ‘‘fog gun,’’ 60
46 Ford Motor Company, 120–122
47 Fortune magazine, 93
48 4D Company, 57
49 4D essay, 50–53
50 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
51 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
52 Fuller, Alexandra (first daughter), 35.3<5, 40
53 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
54 Fuller, Mrs. Caroline Andrews (mother), 5,13, 16, 17, 21, 38, 100
55 Fuller, Leslie (later Mrs. Edward P. Lamed), (sister), 6,24
56 Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt), 6,155
57 Fuller, Richard (father), 5; illness and death, 12–13
58 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
59 Fuller, Rosamond (Rosy), (later Mrs. Alphonse Kenison), (sister), 11,80,89,108–109,114,156
60 Fuller, Timothy (great-grandfather)
61 Fuller, Wolcott (Wooly), (brother), 3,6, 27,60, 155
62 General Electric, 60
63 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’’
64 geometry. See Energetic Geometry, Nature’s geometry, Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, Synergetics Gibson, Dana, 152
65 Gibson, Leslie (Mrs. Dana Gibson), (niece), 151
66 Gleaves, Admiral, 33
67 ‘‘Great Crash,’’ 67. See also Depression
68 Hardie, Jim, 38, 155
69 Harvard University, 17, 18–20, 21, 23> 135–136, 145
70 Hewlett, Anglesea (Anx), (sister-in-law), 24
71 Hewlett, Anne (later Bucky’s wife), engaged, 24–26; married, 27–29. See also Fuller, Mrs. Richard Buckminster
72 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
73 Hewlett, Mrs. J. Monroe (mother-in-law), 25,43
74 Hewlett, Roger (brother-in-law), 66
75 icosahedron, 102
76 Inca, 29
77 Intuition, 136
78 Kelly-Springfield Truck Company, 37
79 Kenison, Alphonse (brother-in-law), 108–109
80 Kenison, Kariska (niece), 139
81 Kenison, Rosamond. See Fuller, Rosamond
82 Kitty Foyle, 95
83 ‘‘Kleenex House,’’ 123
84 LeSourd, Homer, 15,100,101 ‘‘livingry,’’ 51
85 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Jr., 5
86 Malthus, Thomas, 48
87 ‘‘mechanical jellyfish,’’ 2–3
88 Mechanical Wing, 94
89 Milton Academy, 12,14–17
90 Miniature Earth, 120
91 ‘‘more with less,’’ 91
92 Moore, Don. See tensegrity structures
93 Morley, Christopher, 98,91,95
94 Museum of Modem Art, 8
95 Nagala, 131
96 Nature, 2, 3, 10,48, 83, 114,159. See also Nature’s geometry
97 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
98 Navy, career in: in World War I, 27,29–36; Naval Reserve, 37
99 New York Times, 99
100 Nine Chains to the Moon, 91–93
101 Noguchi, Isamu, 69–70, 79, 80
102 octahedron, 102,119
103 Octet truss, 8,119,122
104 Phelps Dodge Corporation, 89,93
105 Phi Beta Kappa, 145
106 Pierce, Ada, 36
107 Pierce, Dr., 13
108 Pierce, Lincoln (Line), 8, 9, 27, 29, 36,51
109 poetry, 135–136 polyhedron, 102,107,109 prototype, 72,81,88
110 Quinn, Jim, 156
111 radome, 124,138
112 Rock Hall, 29
113 Romany Marie’s, 68
114 ‘‘Rowing Needle,’’ 150
115 Sadao, Shoji, 141
116 San Quentin Prison, 133–135
117 ‘‘scientific dwelling machine,’’ 57,63 Shelter: magazine published by
118119Bucky, 73; his ideas on ecology in, 74; new kind of transport in, 75; closed, 74–75
120 ‘‘shelter tailors,’’ 41
121 Shoriki, Matsutaro, 146–147
122 Snelson, Kenneth. See tensegrity structures
123 Snyder, Alexandra (granddaughter), 131–132
124 Snyder, Jaime (grandson), 131–132, 152.i59
125 Snyder, Robert (son-in-law), 131 Southern Illinois University, 133 ‘‘Spaceship Earth,’’ 139 spheres, closest packing of, 103
126 Spongee, 51
127 Stockade Building System, 40–42, 43,45
128 suicide, thoughts of, 46
129 Synergetic-Energetic Geometry,
130 119, 136, 156. See also Energetic
131 Geometry, Synergetics
132 Synergetics, 160; publication of, 155 synergetics and viruses, 136–138 synergy, 119
133 technology, 11 tensegrity structures, 151–152,156 tensile strength, 51–53 tetrahedron. See Nature’s geometry Time magazine, 123,138
134 Transport, 33
135 ‘‘universal design,’’ 54,56
136 Universe, 6,115,130,132,135,154
137 University City Science Center, 152
138 Vector Equilibrium, 102, 105. See also vectors
139 vectors, 31,100
140 viruses. See synergetics and viruses
141 We go, 27
142 Wichita House: project to solve postwar labor problems, 109–110; model on view, 111; great demand for, 112; problems preventing mass production of, 113
143 Wilder, Thornton, 115
144 World Energy Map, 93
145 World Game, 149,158
146 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 74
147 zeppelin, use in house delivery, 56 zoomobile (auto-airplane), 78–79.
148 See also 4D transport; Dymaxion Car