Fuller, la falacia de la tecnología

• Main Author: Antón Capitel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2011-10-01
• Series: Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos
• Online Access: http://polired.upm.es/index.php/proyectos_arquitectonicos/article/view/1418

<p>The author dedicates it to denying the ideas put forth by Buckminster Fuller about architecture. These ideas were much publicized by British critics, especially by Reyner Banham, and were related to a strange utopia of the disappearance of form as a value and mythification of a set of supposedly "objective criteria" for architectural design, relating this type of thinking with the puritan tradition and its rejection of beauty and pleasure. The author denies the possibility that these ideas could simply exist if architecture is to be produced, and ridicules Fuller's opposition to the weight of buildings, his automobile and house designs, and even his geodesic domes, all of them being examples of crazy and deficient designs in his opinion. In this article the author sets out to directly combat Fuller's the renewed popularity that as a strange revival, has been emerged in the past years.</p>