By Design

Last week on the program we were talking about prefab housing. And our first interview this week in part continues the subject because we're discussing the extraordinary life and vision of the American inventor Buckminster Fuller, a man perhaps best remembered for having invented the geodesic dome.

Buckminster Fuller envisaged a world where people would live in prefabricated hexagonal-shaped homes stamped out of metal, which he called Dymaxion houses.

Dymaxion was a brand name he attached to other inventions including the Dymaxion vehicle, only one of which still exists.

If you are planning on being in New York soon you'll be able to see the Dymaxion car and learn about its inventor in an expansive exhibition at the Whitney Museum of of American Art called Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. .

Guests

K. Michael Hays
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Michael is co-curator of Buckminister Fuller: Starting with the Universe, at the Whtiney Museum of American Art

Further Information

Exhibition website:

Presenter

Alan Saunders

Producer

Mark Wakely

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