Fly's Eye Dome Custom Fabrication Program

"Since 1977 was the fifty-year target date, I began the prototyping of my Fly's Eye dome, which embodied design attention to all that I had learned not only throughout that fifty-year development peri

Griffin Goldsmith on Bucky's Biomimicry

Bucky was way ahead of the mainstream when he insisted back in the1930s that we must “do more with less.” He called that strategy “ephemeralization.” Today, many people call it—rather less poetical

Dymaxion House Plan Color

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BFI Totes

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Spring Prints!

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DYMAX REDUX Map Contest

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Henry Ford Museum Restores the Dymaxion House

The only full-size prototype of the Dyamxion House resides in the Henry For Museum, and it is currently undergoing structural assessment and damage review to ensure its conservation.

Restoring the 50 Foot Fly's Eye Dome!

Rendering courtesy of Explorations Architecture

Featured from Dymaxion Artifacts: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

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2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Call for Proposals

Each year, the Buckminster Fuller Institute awards $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve one of humanity’s m
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