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A Day of Domes and Speakeasies
With excursions to Jossey-Bass and Gensler
19 June 2012
Bucky Fuller on a geodesic screen
Some of his books, a fair few of which I bought at the time
Weird concatenation: on left Paolo Soleri's arcologies, Fuller on right
Fuller's theory of change - maybe it's where I got my Waves of Change idea from?
What a day! Elaine and I visited the Buckminster Fuller exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which was both wildly stimulating (Bucky had a huge impact on my early thinking in this space; his work was introduced to me by Ian Keay, who we would meet up with later in the week; and I met Fuller in Reykjavik in 1977, in one of those encounters that lives on in your mind forever) and slightly disappointing (when I met one of the exhibition organisers a day or two later, he noted that Fuller didn't actually produce that much that you could exhibit, apart from domes, the Dymaxion Car and his books - though, I'd be the first to assert, that was an immensity of creativity and achievement). A nice NYT piece on it all here.
I would subsequently mention Soleri at meetings at Gensler and Autodesk, and got a surprisingly positive response from others he had influenced. (Though I also recalled that when I wrote a 12-page article in the Architectural Association Quarterly (in 1974) on our 1973 visit to Soleri's Arcosanti in Arizona, I predicted that the embryonic city would make extraordinary ruins, and perhaps sooner than most people would imagine.)
Then we went to see Karen Murphy at Jossey-Bass, now part of John Wiley, who will be the editor on the new book I'm planning with Jochen Zeitz of PUMA. Jochen, incidentally, has been getting a good deal of media coverage during the UN Rio+20 summit, thanks to his focus on the environmental profit & loss approach, and on natural capital.
Later in the day, I spoke at a special event at Gensler, the architectural, design and planning firm. This spotlighted The Zeronauts - and afterwards I signed a bunch of copies for participants. Strikingly, three different people mnetioned that earlier books of mine had influenced their choice of career. (The responsibility!) A delightful evening with Gensler staff and clients.
Then out into the street to wake up a chauffeur in a Lincoln town car and head across to Pacific Heights, for an Autodesk dinner hosted by Taylor Milsal in her wonderful home, which used to be a speakeasy in Prohibition times. Then home with same driver, same car, to the same hotel, the Orchard Hotel in Bush Street. Sleep.
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