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page026from Building IdeasChicago World Exposition. The advancedaerodynamics and rear-wheel steering of the car – ineffective at high speedsdue to its loss of contact with the ground – were directly inspired by the formof an aeroplane fuselage, confirmed by the famous photograph of one of Fuller’slater prototypes of the car, parked on a runway next to his own equally curious-lookingaircraft, the amphibious Republic Seabee.5 A telling example of Fuller’s romanticdesire to make use of all the most advanced technological possibilities – evenwhere they are not necessarily required or particularly appropriate – comes inhis summary of the goals of the Dymaxion project, made in 1983, the year of hisdeath: SinceI was intent on developing a high-technology dwelling machine that could beair-delivered to any remote, beautiful country site where there might be noroadways or landing fields for airplanes, I decided to try to develop anomni-medium transport vehicle to function in the sky, on negotiable terrain, oron water – to be securely landable anywhere like an eagle.6 Itis here that Fuller’s debt to those first great machine-age poets andromantics, the Italian Futurists, becomes apparent, in his echoing of theinfatuation they experienced when confronted with new technological possibilities.As the 1914 manifesto of the group makes clear while also betraying the provenanceof some more recent high-tech preoccupations: Wemust invent and rebuild the Futurist city: it must be like an immense,tumultuous, likely, noble work site, dynamic in all its parts; and the Futuristhouse must be like an enormous machine. The lifts must not hide like lonelyworms in the stair wells; the stairs, become useless, must be done away withand the lifts must climb like serpents of iron and glass up the housefronts.7
5 Reproduced in Martin Pawley, BuckminsterFuller, Trefoil Publications, London, 1990, p 81. 6 R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted in Martin Pawley,Buckminster Fuller, Trefoil Publications, London, 1990, p 57. 7 Sant Elia/Marinetti, “FuturistArchitecture”, in Ulrich Conrads(ed.), Programmes and Manifestoes on 20thCentury Architecture, Lund Humphries, London, 1970, p36.
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