The Home Is a Dome: Buckminster Fuller, Carbondale, Illinois, and the Resurrection of an Iconic Dwelling

by Cary O'Dell and Thad Heckman

Recognized as one of the great design and architectural thinkers of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller's name is synonymous with the geodesic dome. But throughout his long life and career, Fuller would only ever call one geodesic dome "home," and that was the house he built in 1960 on a corner lot in the small Midwestern town of Carbondale, Illinois. Erected in just one day, Carbondale's famous "Bucky Dome" was an architectural innovation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634992105
• ISBN13: 9781634992107
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: America Through Time
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"