March 08, 2011

Dymaxion by Buckminster Fuller

Dymaxion was the name Buckmister Fuller gave several of his inventions. These were: a very futuristic car (planned 1933, aerodynamic teardrop form, three-wheeled, foldable, could be disassembled and re-assembled), Dymaxion Car:



...then a world map projected on a modified icosahedron, the Dymaxion Map:

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....and, among more others, of course the Dymaxion House. "A house designed for industrial reproduction":