Black Mountain College 'Supine Dome' designed by Buckminster Fuller and constructed from Venetian blinds.

Title

Black Mountain College 'Supine Dome' designed by Buckminster Fuller and constructed from Venetian blinds.

Date

1948

Creator

["Guermonprez, Trude, 1910-1976."]

Place

["Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States"]

Local Call Number

Museum of Art Record Group. Black Mountain College Research Project. Visual Materials. Box 87. Folder: Guermonprez, Trude (Elesser). Classes.

MARS ID

61.12.8 (Sub Series)

Document Details

Title

Black Mountain College 'Supine Dome' designed by Buckminster Fuller and constructed from Venetian blinds.

Date

1948

Creator

["Guermonprez, Trude, 1910-1976."]

Rights

Courtesy of Western Regional Archives. Prior permission from the State Archives of NC is required for any commercial use.

Description

Black Mountain College Venetian Blind Strip Dome designed by Buckminster Fuller and assembled by students in his 1948 Summer Session architecture class. The 31 'great circle' structure measured 48 feet in diameter, covered 1500 square feet, and was intended to rise to a height of 23 feet as it was constructed. The dome failed to form so was dubbed the 'Supine Dome' by students. It was Fuller's first attempt to build a hemispherical dome based on geodesic geometry.

Subject

["Great circle (Geometry)","Tensegrity (Engineering)","Structural engineering","Guermonprez, Trude, 1910-1976","Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)","Geodesic domes","Architecture","Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983","Tensile architecture"]

Index Terms

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Guermonprez, Trude, 1910-1976; Joseph, William;

Local Call Number

Museum of Art Record Group. Black Mountain College Research Project. Visual Materials. Box 87. Folder: Guermonprez, Trude (Elesser). Classes.

MARS ID

61.12.8 (Sub Series)

Place

["Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States"]

Time Period

["(1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period"]

Digital Collections

["Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math"]

Source Collections

["Black Mountain College Research Project. North Carolina Museum of Art. Western Regional Archives"]

Physical Characteristics

1 black and white photograph;

Format

["Photographs"]

Hosted By

["State Archives of North Carolina"]

Identifier

BMCRP_VM_Bx87_GuerTrude_ClassesFuller_54f--Sum1948

Black Mountain College 'Supine Dome' designed by Buckminster Fuller and constructed from Venetian blinds.

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