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Architect | Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao |
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Location | Montreal, Canada map | |||
Date | 1967 timeline | |||
Building Type | exhibition hall | |||
Construction System | geodesic dome | |||
Climate | temperate | |||
Context | exposition site | |||
Style | Modern | |||
Notes | Lightweight geodesic dome envelope enclosing more conventional interior construction. | |||
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Discussion | US Pavilion at Expo '67 Commentary
"A giant dome, roughly three-quarters of a sphere, designed to look like a lacy filigree weightless against the sky. Height: 200 feet: spherical diameter; 250 feet. Construction: a space frame of steel pipes enclosing 1,900 molded acrylic panels." from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p33. Details 250 feet in diameter, 200 feet high. | |||
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Sources on US Pavilion at Expo '67
Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p161. Available at Amazon.com Douglas E. Gordon and Stephanie Stubbs. How Architecture Works. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. ISBN 0-442-23951-3. LC 90-49703. NA2520.G58 1991. p139. Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-01328-0. LC 92-18415. NA2750.H48. exterior overview photo, p62. Lawrence A. Martin, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, September 1993. PCD.3235.1012.0545.012. PCD.3235.1012.0545.013. John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. aerial photo of dome, p232. Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. discussion, p322-323, exterior photo, f278, p323. Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. ISBN 0-422-29190-6. LC 89-5320. NA703.W75 1989. discussion, p33. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5. Available at Amazon.com
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