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Fuller.Probably the only architect to have an atomic particle named after him (“Buckminsterfullerene”,a molecule of carbon which has a similar structure to his “geodesic dome”),Fuller is perhaps best known for the dome he constructed for the 1967Exposition in Montréal,Canada, based on the geodesic principle and still standing today, thoughwithout its original Plexiglass covering. As a tireless innovator of newmaterials and technologies Fuller had become famous for a series ofmass-production prototypes such as the “Dymaxion” series of bathrooms, cars andultimately houses, from the 1920s to the 1940s, which found only limitedpractical application but significant theoretical interest. One of Fuller’sgreat apologists in this period of ferment in the 1950s was the English criticReyner Banham who took up his technological cause and gave it an “academic”respectability. It was largely through Banham’s enthusiastic promotion thatFuller’s ideas of a technology-driven modern architecture fed into the work ofthe Archigram group, although Banham was also concerned to establish a sense ofhistorical continuity between these new technological
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