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Designing domes to change the world
Tonight, June 10, what has been called "socially responsible design's highest award" will be granted in New York City at the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge: Architecting the Future. The visionary engineer, best known for the lasting cultural blueprint of geodesic domes, was one of a herd of geniuses associated with the incalculably influential Black Mountain College of the 1930s-1950s, active today through the post-scholastic efforts of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Fuller's high idealism -- restoration of ecological balance and human equality through what he called "comprehensive anticipatory design science" -- has never seemed more pertinent than in the current age, where green initiatives have accrued increasing urgency. Stay tuned to the Web site to discover what innovation the $100,000-award-winning architect will unleash -- and if it belongs on the same grid of greatness established by Fuller a good half-century before "sustainability" coated the eco lexicon like a low-VOC lacquer.
