Bucky Fuller's Dome

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Throughout his life, Bucky Fuller was a strong advocate of environmentalism. It was during the 1950's that he came up with the term "spaceship earth" to show how Americans need to care for the Earth in the same way that they care for spaceships as the Space Races began to take off at this time. This article talks about another one of Fuller's environmental ideas: a dome that would cover all of Manhattan. Fuller had been interested in "the relationship between natural and artificial design" and had built domes for Ford and Walt Disney. With his environmental background, he felt that there was a need for a dome over Manhattan that would cover the entire city. Unfortunately, Fuller died in 1985 and his dream of a dome in Manhattan was never realized.