If anyone is interested in joining a weeklong celebration for Buckminster Fuller, please see below for detailed information. And thank you to organizers for inviting ArkitecTrue to the press preview for the Buckminster Fuller Fly’s Eye Dome and the related programming at the Center for Architecture.
Speakers who will be present to answer questions include: James McCullar, FAIA, President of the AIA New York Chapter; Allegra Fuller Snyder, Founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute; Shoji Sadao, President of Fuller and Sadao PC; Bonnie DeVarco, former Fuller Archivist; Wendy Feuer, Assistant Commissioner of Urban Design & Art at the New York City Department of Transportation; Lawrence Goldberg, Esq., President of the Friends of LaGuardia Place; and Beth Stryker, Director of Programs, Center for Architecture.
The press preview for the Dymaxion Study Center opening and Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome launch will be on June 23, 2008 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.
Dymaxion Study Center and the Buckminster Fuller Fly’s Eye Dome Opens at the Center for Architecture June 23rd
The Dymaxion Study Center and the Buckminster Fuller Fly’s Eye Dome
Kick off a week of Fuller-related programming at the Center for Architecture
NEW YORK CITY, June 5, 2008 – The Center for Architecture will open Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Study Center on Monday, June 23rd, 2008.
The Dymaxion Study Center will display over four hundred volumes of books by and about visionary inventor and theorist, Buckminster Fuller, whose work has influenced generations of architects and environmentalists. These volumes will include the complete and extremely rare volume of Buckminster Fuller’s “Synergetics Dictionary�, as well as other well-known works, such as “Synergetics� and “Nine Chains to the Moon�. The Study Center will include selections from Fuller’s “live book squad� of influential texts and a Dymaxion timeline, outlining the evolution of Fuller’s geodesic designs in the context of their co-evolution with the Dymaxion map, organized in collaboration with Bonnie DeVarco, former Fuller Archivist and Shoji Sadao, President of Fuller and Sadao PC.
Beginning Monday, June 23rd, 2008, the Center for Architecture will also unveil the Buckminster Fuller Fly’s Eye Dome, courtesy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and Max Protetch Gallery, New York, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Temporary Art Program and Friends of LaGuardia Place. The dome will be temporarily displayed at LaGuardia Park between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets. Its presence will draw attention to the imminent re-design of the park by landscape architect, Adrian Smith, ASLA, working with students and Friends of LaGuardia Place.
“The Fly’s Eye domes are designed as components of a ‘livingry’ service. The basic hardware components will produce a beautiful, fully equipped, air-deliverable house that weighs and costs about as much as a good automobile. Not only will it be highly efficient in its use of energy and materials, it also will be capable of harvesting incoming light and wind energies.” - Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1983.
The Center for Architecture’s Dymaxion Study Center and Fly’s Eye Dome will be free and open to the public, offering audiences an in-depth view of Buckminster Fuller, his influences, his words, and works.
Related Fuller Programs at the Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place)
Organized by the AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in association with the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
Monday June 23, 2008, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Buckminster Fuller Press Preview, Challenge Conferring Ceremony, and presentation:
1:00 PM – Press Preview and Presentation of full-scale Fly’s Eye Dome at LaGuardia Park
2:00 PM - Conferring of Buckminster Fuller Prize
3:00 PM - Presentation by John Todd (winner)
3:30 PM - Symposium, John Todd, J. Baldwin, Hunter Lovins, Greg Watson, moderated by Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine
5:00 PM - Cocktail reception and opening of Dymaxion study center
Wednesday June 25, 2008, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Dialogue with Fuller associates and scholars:
12:00 PM - Fuller’s architectural partners Shoji Sadao and Thomas Zung with Fuller expert and author Amy C. Edmondson, moderated by Branden Joseph, Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University.
2:00 PM - Fuller associates Edwin Schlossberg and Michael Ben-Eli, moderated by Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA
Dymaxion Study Center roundtable, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Meet and talk to renowned Fuller colleagues and authors including Fuller archivist Bonnie DeVarco; inventor and author of Buckyworks, Jay Baldwin; and Synergetics expert and design science innovator, Joseph Clinton. Moderated by Paul Makovsky, Editorial Director of Metropolis magazine.
Friday, June 27, 2008, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Fuller film series and discussion:
An exciting evening of film and discussion with filmmaker and producer Jaime Snyder and Buckminster Fuller’s daughter, Allegra Fuller Snyder.
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM
Dymaxion Map Intergenerational Workshop: One Earth Island – One Earth Ocean
An experiential workshop that explores how interconnected we are all, using Buckminster Fuller’s giant Dymaxion world map. Jointly produced by the CFA Foundation and EarthVoyage
Saturday, July 12, 2008, 10:00am–12:00pm and 1:00–3:00pm
FamilyDay@theCenter: Bucky’s Ge-Odyssey
Buckminster “Buckyâ€? Fuller was an architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, poet and visionary. Join us on Buckminster Fuller’s birthday for a hands-on journey through the geometries of the universe and find out how they inspired his Design Science.
Organized by: The Center for Architecture Foundation
Sponsored by: Beverages provided by IZZE
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: $10 suggested donation per family
Media receive complementary invitations to the exhibition opening and all related programming, including the symposium. For details please contact Barbie Steffen at AIA New York, 212-358-6126, bsteffen@aiany.org
About the Center for Architecture
The Center for Architecture is New York City’s premier public space for exhibitions, discussion and professional exchange on architecture and design. With a storefront resource center, multiple galleries, a lecture hall, library and conference rooms, the Center serves as the place where the public and design professionals meet. Established in 2003 by the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the Center is also home to the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the New York Chapter of Architecture for Humanity (AFHny), the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York (IESNY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY).
The Center for Architecture is open 9 am to 8 pm, Monday - Friday, and 11 am to
5 pm, Saturdays. Admission is free. It is located at 536 LaGuardia Place, NY, NY 10012.
For more information on the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, visit the website www.aiany.org or contact Barb Steffen at AIA New York, 212-358-6126, bsteffen@aiany.org.
About the Friends of LaGuardia Place
The Friends of LaGuardia Place, organized in 1986 by resident and business neighbors to improve the tract of road-bed along LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and West Third Streets, lobbied for the construction of a park and commissioned the sculptor, Neil Estern to create the slightly larger than life-size statue of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, erected on the site in 1988. A re-design of the park, featuring child-friendly topiary is underway.
Sponsors:
Underwriters: Department of Transportation (DOT) Temporary Art Program, Friends of LaGuardia Place, Center for Architecture Foundation
Lead Sponsors: Spring Scaffolding
Sponsor: Richter+Ratner
Supporters: New York University; Purchase College, State University of New York
Media Sponsor: Metropolis Magazine
Exhibition Design: Project Projects
Images for publication. For information please contact Barbie Steffen at 212-358-6126, bsteffen@aiany.org.
Photomontage of Fuller dome @ LaGuardia Park (Shawn Mackinnon)
Photomontage of Fuller dome @ LaGuardia Park (Shawn Mackinnon)
Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome at Max Protetch, Beacon, NY (Elizabeth Thompson)
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