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geodesic dome) Buckminster Fuller pictured in front of a geodesic dome, c. 1960. The surface of a geodesic dome is formed out of short rods arranged in triangles, a structure which allows large spaces to be enclosed using the minimum of materials. Buckminster Fuller patented the design in 1954. ) View of the geodesic dome at the Park of La Villette, Paris, France. The geodesic dome is a lightweight structure of standardized, interlocking units which allows large spaces to be enclosed efficiently and relatively cheaply. It was invented by US architect and designer Buckminster Fuller. Hemispherical dome, a type of space-frame, whose surface is formed out of short rods arranged in triangles. The rods lie on geodesics (the shortest lines joining two points on a curved surface). This type of dome allows large spaces to be enclosed using the minimum of materials, and was patented by US engineer Buckminster Fuller in 1954. |
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| Another was Buckminster Fuller, the polymath who invented the geodesic dome and whose ideas about researchers crossing disciplinary and institutional lines were, Turner argues, intimately connected with Cold War military research. Coxeter's work, especially his treatise entitled Regular Polytopes, went on to influence various people, including Buckminster Fuller, who credits Coxeter's vision in developing his famous geodesic domes. It was a passive solar geodesic dome home in the early stages of construction. |
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