DOMEBOOK 2

1.000,00 kr.

A sequel to ‘Domebook One’, highlighting the structures that Lloyd Kahn built with students at Pacific High School, an alternative/experimental school in the Santa Cruz foothills, and providing comprehensive instructions for building shelter out of a wide range of different types of dome. Like its predecessor, it became a staple of the Whole Earth Catalog’s ‘Shelter and Land Use’ section. Also includes an extensive interview with Buckminster Fuller, conducted in Los Angeles in December 1970 by Hans Meyer, and two pages on Drop City, one of the first communities to construct domes to house its members

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Buckminster Fuller, R. – Brand, Stewart. – Kahn, Lloyd (ed.): . DOMEBOOK 2. Bolinas: Bolinas, CA: Pacific Domes / Shelter Publishing, 1971. Oversized tall folio in stapled wraps as issued. 128 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams. Layout and drawings by Robert East. Name to first page and some overall edgewear else a well preserved very good copy

First edition

Simple Geodesics — Models — Great Circles — Spherical Trig — Geodesic Geometry — Sun Dome — Big Sur Dome — Pacific Dome — Washer Hub — Aluminum Triacon Dome — Aluminum Sun Dome — Elliptical Domes — Aspen Dome — Muslin Foam Dome — Backpacked Foam — The Pod — Tent Domes — Tube Frame Domes – 3/4 Dome — Shake Dome — Sheet Metal Dome — Inside — Hot Rats — Red Rockers — Isla Vista Dome — Stone Domes — Ferro Cement — Plastic Foam — Ferrostone Dome — Floors — Sealing — Windows — Vents — Doors — Heating and Insulation — 1×2 Bamboo — New Materials — Hollywood Hills Dome — Tensile Structures — Interview’ R. Buckminster Fuller — Drop City — Tensegrity Icosa Diamond Dome — Bamboo Dome — Ananda — Morning Glory — Zomes — Connections Truncations — Geodesic Math — Chord Factors — Useful Math — Building Inspector Triodetics — Charas Cardboard — Mast Costs Triacontahedron — Ant Farm — Kern Dyna Joining — Sun — Wind — Bibliography — Paper Models — Untested Ideas

DOMEBOOK 2

1.000,00 kr.

In stock