Future Cities by Paul Dobraszczyk

Author:Paul Dobraszczyk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

An enormous range of projects from this period envisaged new urban communities under protective canopies of one kind or another. These included the geodesic bio-domes developed by Buckminster Fuller and realized most dramatically in his 76-metre-diameter (249-ft) Biosphere built for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. Fully enveloping a seven-storey exhibition building, the dome’s innumerable interconnecting equilateral triangles, made from lightweight steel tubes, created an extraordinary visual display of delicate enclosure.18 At the same exposition was architect Frei Otto’s German pavilion, made up of a vast translucent, polyester canopy anchored to the ground with steel cables. The sweeping parabolic curves of the canopy produced dramatic spatial effects and came to be regarded as a blueprint for a new kind of humanitarian architecture that could respond quickly and flexibly to human needs.19

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