Whose Dome Is It Anyway?

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1996/4/1996_4_28.shtml

In the article "Whose Dome is it Anyway?" Alex Soojung-Kim Pang explores the duality of Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic dome. While Fuller is well known for his "Spaceship Earth" ideals of sustainability and environmentalism, and his dome is often associated with communes or other types of alternative housing, his Geodesic dome has firm roots in the military. Though Fuller was a liberal leaning, environmentalist, he felt his working with Marine Corps could help spread the dome as "a tool for victory in both war and peace, a high-tech product for combat areas that could also be made into mass-produced factories, power systems, schools, and hospitals and parachuted into friendly but impoverished Third World countries to create First World industrial powers overnight." Intriguing to see the wide variety of roles the geodesic dome has taken on in the US.


Additionally:
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/buckminster-fuller/146
Very interesting video that touches on Richard Buckminster Fuller's life and career. It contains lots of different seemingly credibly people speaking about Fuller and his work, as well as several clips of Bucky himself talking. Doesn't go into a great deal of depth, but provides interesting overview of his career as well as many images of his work.