{"id":783,"date":"2010-09-24T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/?p=783"},"modified":"2010-09-25T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T12:41:48","slug":"bucky-fuller-spaceship-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dymaxion<\/a>

Dymaxion Car #4, Based on a 1933 design by Buckminster Fuller<\/p><\/div>\n

I think I had to post this because the car photos are just so cool. This car was actually designed in the early 1930’s by R. Buckminster Fuller (think geodesic dome). There were only three experimental cars built, and they didn’t do all that well (although it seems they were easy to park<\/a> due to the single back wheel).<\/p>\n

The Noted British Architect, and 1999 Pritzker Prize winner Norman Foster commissioned a new version of Fuller’s old design as a tribute. Foster knew and worked with Fuller in the 80’s. I actually met Bucky in the mid 70’s, when I picked him up from LaGuardia and drove him to Pratt for a lecture. My brush with greatness.<\/p>\n

This car is now on exhibit until October 30th at the “Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth” exhibit, being held at the Ivorypress Art + Books gallery in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I had to post this because the car photos are just so cool. This car was actually designed in the early 1930’s by R. Buckminster Fuller (think geodesic dome). There were only three experimental cars built, and they didn’t do all that well (although it seems they were easy to park due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,5],"tags":[107,25,111,103,104,109,108,106,105,110,71],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-design","tag-architect","tag-automobile","tag-buckminster-fuller","tag-car","tag-dymaxion","tag-invention","tag-inventor","tag-norman-foster","tag-pritzker","tag-spaceship-earth","tag-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1274j-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveleigh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}