¶ Fuller: R.B.: Crisis of 1927
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Fuller: R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"This /the birth of Allegra/ precipitated my absolute determination to peel off. I had really been through a great deal. But I had gone into Harvard with high honors in physics. I had very rich boyhood experience with boats. In my Navy, I had looked into electronics, the chemistries, and navigation. I had papers to command unlimited tonnage on the ocean. I could fly. But I had kept pushing things, trying them out. And it always seemed to come to a dead end. I decided I’d better call myself to account, with this new child to care for. Or get myself out of the way, because I was a mess.
“This is really where I started. I was not called an architect. I was not called anything. I was simply faced with the problem of organizing myself and really starting to use me. I had to educate myself in a great many ways to pursue such a course. But I found it’s actually possible for an individual to make first moves, and that these will incite various others.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb’72
