Index
1Page numbers in italics refer to captions.
2 acid rain 201 acoustic privacy 122 advertising 204 aerodynamics
3 of buildings
419, 50, 112, 115, 122-123
5 of cars 88, 95 air conditioners 29 Airbarac 42, 43 Airstream trailers 163 alloys
6 advantages of 42 synergy of 68 altruism 9
7 American Institute of
8 Architects (AIA) 21
9 America’s Cup 88
10 Anderson, Marian 53
11 Annapolis 4
12 Applewhite, E. J. 65, 75 automation 224 autonomous buildings 34 house 28 package 153, 156, 205
13 Bauersfeld, Walter 118
14 Bear Island 83, 170 Beechcraft 42
15 Beer, Stafford 218, 220 bel-Geddes, Norman 88 Bell, Alexander Graham 194, 205
16 Bell Telephone System 205 Beyond Dispute 218, 220 big bang 192
17 Biosphere II 178, 179
18 Black Mountain College
19131, 134, 151, 158
20 Brand, Stewart 217
21 Buckminsterfullerene 74, 75 building codes
22 14, 26, 154, 206
23 Burgess, Starling / 9, 88
24 Butler Manufacturing Company 35, 37
25 career 225
26 Chicago Institute of Design 128, 134, 153 chilling effect 48 machine 36, 56, 115, 116, 160, 173, 189 Chronofile
27 8, 57, 64, 84, 117 Chrysler, Walter 96 city farming 176 Clark, Arthur C. 65 Cloud Nine 190 Club of Rome 82 cogenerator 27,56 competition 130, 175, 223 competitive attack 226 composting toilets 34 comprehensive alertness 225 anticipatory design science 62, 63, 65 prospecting 63 thinking 130, 154 comprehensivist 81, 117 compromise 69 computers
28 and humans 64 and materials efficiency 131 and prototyping 117 and teleporting 109 and the global electric grid
29 203
30 and transport system 104 and World Game 197 Bucky’s design for 65 flawed input 82
31 Conning Tower 24 conserve-ative politics 223 cooperation
32 130, 199, 203, 228 coordinates of Universe 80 Corbusier 183
33 cosmic question 228 counterculture 123
34 crime 182
35Critical Path 82
36 cubing 69, 71
37 cultural diversity 195
38 Dark Ages 227 Darwin 81 DDU See Dymaxion:
39 Deployment Unit debt 201 debunk 11 decentralization 86 deforestation 201 Depression, Great 40, 88, 93 design science 196 design science revolution 62, 227 desovreignization 196 devolution 81 diet 66, 67 discoveries developing 226 not programmable 65 of principles 83 vs. creativity 64
40 Divine Proportion 122 DNA 69 do-tank 226 Domebook One,
41DomebookTwo 123 domes
42 as pedagogy 81 cardboard
43133, 134, 135, 138 chilled 114
44 Climatron 164-165 crashed 145
45 Dome Restaurant 6, /13 earthquake resistance of 153, 2/4 first successful 151 flopahedron 131 Flying Seedpod Dome 142 Fly’s Eyes 207-216 Ford Rotunda
46 73, 119, 120-121, 125 frequency of 77 Fuji 110
47 Hoberman 148-149
48 Honolulu 118, 124
49 Kaiser Aluminum dome 124 l_a Biosphere 166, 169 leaks 123
50 Montreal 74, 114, 166, 169
51 Pillowdome 155, 168-179 skybreak 152, 157-163 sprit 129
52 Sun Dome 123 tensegrity 137 tent 146, 147 tornado resistance 153
53 domes (cont.)
54 U.S. trade pavilions 146
55 Windstar 179
56 drugs 67
57 DuPont 175
58 Dymaxion
59 appliance walls 24 Bathroom 32,32-34 car 9, 88-99, 182, 208 Deployment Unit (DDU) 35-40
60 and chilling effect
61 114, 116
62 design 26
63 Dwelling Machine
64 40-61
65 See also Wichita House house 18-24
66 and growing 117
67 and sprawl 182
68 ready now 204
69 versus conventional 127
70 Hypercar 102, 103 logo 91
71 Map 85, 117, 197, 198, 202 minimalism 34
72 Mobile Dormitory
73 26-28, 44
74 sleep 66
75 Transport 86
76The Dymaxion World of
77Buckminster Fuller 74,85
78 Eames, Charles 228 Earhart, Amelia 88, 99 ecologists 175 Edmondson, Amy C.
79 140, 178
80 egocide 5
81 Einstein, Albert 12, 192, 227 The End ofWork 225 energetic geometry 69 entertainment 67 entropy 226 environmentalists 83 Epcot Center 132 ephemeralization 15, 16, 174 ergonomics 91 Erhard,Werner 82 est 82 evolution
8283and computers 65 and Dymaxion Houses 22 and imagination 223 and sexuality 82 control of 5 makes many starts
84 88, 125, 130
Expo 67 166, 167. See also
domes: Montreal
85 failure 57, 227 feminists 83 fire 123
86 Fog Gun 27, 31, 32
87 FomeCor® 139 food chain 67
88 Henry Ford Museum &
89 Greenfield Village 56
90 Ford cars 90
91 Ford, Henry 131 fortress-building 223
92 4D 12
93 Dymaxion House 18
94 towers 17
954D Timelock 12
96 fractal 76, 221
97 frequency 75, 76
98 Fuller, Anne Hewlett ii, 3,
99 4, 83, 125, 3, 4, 83, 125
100A Fuller Explanation 178
101 Fuller, Margaret 2
102 Fuller Research Foundation
103 128
104 Gabel, Medard 132 Garden of Eden 150-155, 164, 205, 211
105 generalist versus comprehensivist 81
106 GENI 197, 203
107 Geodesic Airolite® boats 108 geodesics 65, 117, 128 and domes 69, 82 and evolution 128 expansion and contraction 126
108 Geodesics, Inc. 128 geometry of thinking 73 Geoscope 166, 197 gestation
109 and cooperation 175 and patience 226 curves 9,192-193 obstacles to 204 of Dymaxion House 52 of Old Man River’s City
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111 of technologies 12, 65 global
112 communications 4 Global Dwelling Service 197, 205, 207
113 Global Energy Network International 203
global transport system 104 warming 201
114 ”go-ahead-with-life’’ room 24 goals 8
115 God 62, 82, 223
116 Golden Mean 122
117 Goodyear blimp 197 great circle geodesic lines 117 Gridcore® 140 guinea pig 65, 66
118 Guinea Pig B
119 5, 8, 12, 222, 227
120 H I
121 Hall, Charles 172
122 Harvard 2
123 health care 201
124 Heat Mirror® 160, 179 hippies 82
125 Hoberman, Chuck 122,
126148-149
127 house
128 as valve 16
129 versus housing 206 hydroelectric systems 29 Hypercars. See Dymaxion:
130 Hypercar ignorance 8, 63, 64, 195
131 illiteracy 201
132 imports and exports 29
133 infrastructure 31
134 Ingber, Donald M.D. 78
135 Innuit 110
136 Integrated Living Systems 38
137 integrity 228
138 Internet 63, 130, 194, 199
139 intuition 128
140JANTZEN —REFORMING ENVIRONMENT
141 J [ . zz
142 Jantzen, Michael and Ellen 39 jet stilts 86 jobs 222-227
143 Kaiser, Henry 99 Katzenbergerjohn 178 Kirksite 44
144 know-how 65, 153, 196
145 Kroto, Harry 74
146 Kuhtik.John 2/6
147 Lacey, Cynthia 48 language 10, II leadership 223 leasing 205 left-wing radical 82 life expectancy 5, 199 lifetime energy use 154 Lightful House 14 Limits to Growth 82 Lindsay, Jeffrey 128 literacy
148149ecological 64 rate of 194, 199 understanding without 146
150 Little, Arthur D. 66
151 Living Machines 150, 176 livingry 61, 206 Lovins, Amory 102, 202
152 MacCready, Paul 106
153 Malthus,Thomas 5
154 Manhattan 189
155 Marine Corps 133
156 marketing 31, 204 Mechanical Wing 156 megacorporations 195 metaphysical radiation 225 metaphysics 16, 82 mind wind 128
157 MIT 158
158 mobile homes 48, 206 money 225
159 Monfort, Platt / 08
160 Moore, Don 30 morality 195 more with less 15, 99 Morley, Christopher 37 The Most Beautiful Molecule 75 Mumford, Lewis 182 Museum of Modern Art (NY) 38, 158
161 natural
162 air conditioning 48, 116
163164air currents 57, 114, 115, 123
165elements 227 habitat 186 houses 16
166 materials 21, 23, 155
167 principles 15, 78
168 systems 182
169 versus industrial 155
170171water purification. See Living Machines
172 nature
173 and economy 16, 75, 117
174 and geodesics 69
175 and repetition 21
176 and synergy 68
177 as designer
178 and 90° coordinates 80
179 and efficiency 63
180181and success 223 of defecation 30
182 as provider 8
183 Negawatts 202 neighborhoods 155 net-shape material 102, 140 New Alchemy Institute 170, 176, 178
184 Newton, Isaac 192
185 North Carolina State 134
186 North Face 147 nuclear fuels 201 numerology 81 nutrition 67
187 o
188 O-Volving Shelf 55 Obnoxico 63, 222 obsolescence
189190and competitive attack 226 planned 23
191 resisting 24
192 unplanned 205
193 Ocean Arks, International
194 See Living Machines octet truss 73, 120, 212 off-road vehicles 84 off-the-grid house 29 Old Man River’s City 184, 218 omnimedium plummeting
195 device 86
196 One Town World 142, 192 optimizing 63, 204 organic architecture 152 Otto, Frei 166 outlaw area 223 overspecialization 81, 130 ozone depletion 201
197 Packaging Toilet 27, 30, 32 patents 134
198 patterns in world commerce 62
199 Pauling, Linus 81
200Perfect Symmetry 75 photovoltaics 29, 34, 65 ‘‘Platonic’’ solids 70, 243 pneumatics 16, 189 politics
201 and corruption 67 and economics 228 and obsolescence 196 and power 28 and reform 8
202 and security 223
203 and will 203 pollution
204205abatement 201, 203 and cars 102 and heat 64
206and indoor air quality 154, 189
207and regulations 195 and suburbia 182 and water 30
208 Polynesia 81
209Popular Science magazine 123 population 201, 203, 224 Powers often 228 prefab house 206 proof 80, 117
211 race 194
212 real cost 226
213 recycling 29, 82
214 reforming environment 91 • regeneration 63, 82 regional factories 205 Reines, Robert 38 religion 82, 195
215 renewable resources 203
216 Richter, Don 128, 132, 163
217 Rifkin, Jeremy 225
218 Rocky Mountain Institute 102
219 role-equalizing 218
220 Rowing Needles 106
221 Rule of Communication 10 sacrifice 63 safety factor 170 Salk, Jonas 81 security 222, 223, 225 self-discipline 223 Senior Eden 180 sensitivity 225 sex
222223bisexuality 82 homosexuality 82
224 shared power 203 silo tops 38, 39 sleep
225 catnaps 66, 67
226 High-Frequency 66
227 Power Napping 67
228 Smalley, Richard 74 Snelson, Kenneth 76, 132 Snyder,Allegra Fuller 3 soil erosion 201 solar
229 energy 65
230 heat 115, 150
231 Southern Illinois University 125
232 Spaceship Earth 228 specialization 223
233 Spruce Goose 132
234 squaring 69
235 Starnet International
236 Corporation 170 starvation 201
237 Stockade Building System
238 4, 14,204
239 Stokowski, Leopold 94
240 Stout,William 88
241 styling (versus design) 88, 204
242 success 5, 8, 227
243 successful failure 2
244 suction 115
245 suicide 5
246 sunrise and sunset 10 surface-to-volume ratio 112 sustainable farming 201 sweepout 194
247 swords into plowshares
248 40, 61, 64
249 synergetic global advantage 86 synergetics
250 principles of 68, 118
251 as radical concept 80 synergy
252 negative 30
253 Syntegration® 218
254 syntropy 227 tax subsidy 28
255 teaching 226
256 Team Syntegrity® 218
257 Teflon® 170
258 Tefzel® 170, 179
259 Temcor 124, 132
260 10-deck towers 17, 18,42
261 tensegrity 75-78
262 sculpture 132
263 structures 16 tensile strength 68, 139 tension 16, 75 terrorism 196 time 69, 117 Todd, John 180 tourism 195 trends 69
264 trial and error 90
265 Triton City 186
266 Truss, Joe 2/9
267 trust in God 223 truth 192, 228 Tucker, Preston 99
268 U.S. Board of Economic
269 Warfare 40
270 U.S. Marine Corps 145
271 University of Michigan
272133, 138
273 University of Minnesota 136 up and down 11 urban sprawl 86, 182 valve, house as 16 •
274 Velikovsky, Immanuel 80
275 Verazzano Bridge 11
276 VERTOL 86
277 Warren, John 210
278 Washington University 142 waste 64 wealth 227
279 Wells, Malcolm 22
280 Wendel.Wendel R. 170
281Whole Earth Catalog 217
282Whole Earth Review 217 Wichita House 56-61, 117, 206, 207 wind damage 127 loads 112 turbines 17, 29, 65 wind sucks 10 Windstar Foundation 178, 208 within-ness 68 Wolfe, John 180 women’s role 83 work ethic 222 world citizenship 195 world currency 194 World Design Science Decade 63, 67
283 World Game 63, 166, 197 The World Game Institute 132, 197, 199
284 world language 194 Worlds in Collision 80 world’s resources 62 Wright, Frank Lloyd 14 Wright brothers 132, 204
285 XY Z coordinate system 80
286Yesterday’s Houses ofTomorrow
287 14
288 Zeiss 118 zeppelin 14, 18, 94