 |
Tuesday, 5/23/2006, 6:00—9:00pm Mobile Living Film Series Basic Bucky An 11-segment video taken from Comprehensive Design: The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller, a Dome-Encapsulated Multi-Media Traveling Exhibit (1990). The clips feature Fuller demonstrating his own futuristic inventions through Nature's Generalized Principles: Leverage, Tension and Compression; Pattern Integrity; Synergy; Universe as Scenario; Artifacts/Inventions: Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Car, Geodesic and Fly's Eye Domes, and Roofs over Cities; Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Euler's Topology: Angle and Frequency, The Triangle: Basic Structure; The Three Basic Structural Systems; The Vector Equilibrium. 32 minutes. |
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
This program is in conjunction with the Mobile Living Exhibition at Skylight Studios. Mobile Living exhibits the unparalleled advancements in our society that have enabled our modern nomadic lifestyle. Mixing art, design and technology running concurrently with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), May 21—23, 2006. Please see link below for more exhibition information.
Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow
This 1998 film traces the history of a forgotten milestone in Finnish design. The 1960's International space-age craze stirred interest among Finnish architects, especially the Futuro house designed by Matti Suuronen. Suuronen's design encapsulated the distinctive themes of 1960's Utopian architecture; mobility, increased leisure time and new materials. 29 minutes.
Monsanto — House of the Future
This 1957 film on the Monsanto House of the Future erected in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA was produced by Monsanto. It includes a full walk through and description of the life of a typical future family. 12 minutes.
Organized by: Exhibitions International and the Center for Architecture
Registration Contact: 212.683.0023
Price: $10
» Click here for more information
Click below to purchase a copy of Basic Bucky from BFI in either DVD or VHS formats
