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Metadata
Title |
Tetrascroll |
Object Name |
Book |
Collection |
Architectural Toys Collection |
Catalog Number |
2024.11.1 |
Description |
Tetrascroll book by R. Buckminster Fuller |
Context |
Designer and futurist Buckminster Fuller believed that children are naturals at the big-picture style of thinking he specialized in and dubbed "Synergetics." Begun as a bedtime story for his young daughter, Tetrascroll is a wide-ranging riff on Fuller's vision of a change-driven universe where human design functions best when kept to a minimum, and where-as Goldilocks learns in the traditional tale-one size never fits all. It first appeared as a forty-plus-foot-long scroll composed of equilateral triangles - the geometric form Fuller believed was nature's universal building block. |
Currently On Display In |
Visible Vault: Open Collections Storage |
Dimensions |
H-32.75 W-37 D-4.375 inches |
Lexicon Category |
8: Communication Objects |
Caption |
2024.11.1_front |