Gothamist: Bucky's Back! Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome and More

sonyactivision

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:38:34 -0500

Arcosanti is currently squatted by a couple hundred sweaty, pedantic, hippy cultists that grow squash in gullies fed by rainwater collected by a concrete berm that keeps their rusty crane from falling over and damaging the Sand Candle Suite.

Snoopy

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:40:59 -0500

One other thing. The word "Green" makes me want to puke. Back in the mid sixties the word was "Ecology" same concept, different word. How about Organic, Sustainable, blah, blah, blah? It's not a new concept and unless it's economically feasible (unfortunately the bean counters at GM didn't think the EV1 was)it will not come to be. Paolo Soleri had his Arcosanti. How many people have moved in since he began construction?

Snoopy

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:29:58 -0500

If Fuller died in 1983. As Yogi Berra might say, "He must have designed that before he died." That makes the design 25 years old. If it was such a great design both economically and functionally wouldn't there be a like a bazillion of these around the world? Instead it looks like some funky playground equipment left over from some World's Fair that the Beatles visited.

Spiritof76

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:59:20 -0500

Talk about unreadable. "Visionist." "Dymnaxion." "Crappola." As for Time's article, it's hard to give it any credibility when it calls the EV1 one of the 50 worst cars of all time.

sonyactivision

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:59:05 -0500

I've always hated everything this half-assed utopian shitbag ever designed or built. It isn't clever, it isn't attractive, and it isn't architecture. It's just hyperrational egotistical ejaculate in a geometric wrapper.

Snoopy

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:38:26 -0500

Knock it off with Bucky being a visionist or a savior of society. His structures are great for housing radar antennae but crappola for housing people. His dymnaxion car and house were bullshit and his writings unreadable.