The Top Ten Fuller's Geodesic Homes In The World

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Domes play a quintessential role in architectural history. In Late Stone Age (approximately 50,000 years ago), the dome-shaped tombs were used to replicate God’s shelter and make permanent homes for the dead. Since then, every civilization has used domes: Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Arab Architecture has beautiful examples of domes. It’s intriguing to see how they pursued the same instincts at different eras without knowing each other.

But a 20th-century invention changed dome engineering forever. When Walther Bauersfeld was constructing the Zeiss-Planetarium in 1926, he used a radical new design, “a geodesic dome”, for the first time ever in architectural history. He probably wasn’t aware that he opened the doors to a new era in dome building.

Within the past hundred years, the world has seen countless geodesic dome buildings, some of which have become quite popular. Here’s our shortlist of some popular geodesic domes around the world.

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Historic Significance
Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was a famous twentieth-century American inventor and is among Southern Illinois University’s most decorated alumni. An inventor, theorist, designer and architect, Fuller is perhaps most widely known for coining and popularizing the geodesic dome, considered to be one of the strongest and most efficient structures known to humankind. Fuller patented the dome home in 1954 as a solution to the post-war housing boom.

Envisioned as a model for durable, affordable, accessible and efficient housing, the prefabricated dome home in Carbondale was assembled on a concrete foundation over just seven hours on April 19, 1960. The home was also the only dome in which Fuller ever lived. From 1959-1971, Fuller taught at SIUC, where he produced some of his most significant work. While residing in his geodesic Dome Home, Fuller made the cover of Time Magazine, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, published some of his most influential writing and received more than a quarter of his 23 patents.

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