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Letter
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Letter from U.S. Information Agency on American National Exhibition in Moscow
This letter from George V. Allen, the director of the United States Information Agency, written to Buckminster Fuller discusses plans on an American national exhibition to be held in Sokolniki Park, Moscow. -
Letter on Buckminster Fuller's primary design influence
The letter details Buckminster Fuller's creative and professional career including his various theoretical concepts. Discussions on his "teleologic preoccupation" and teleologic design process are accounted in this letter. -
Letter Regarding Sales Data
A letter regarding sales promotion data, Buckminster Fuller's patents and discussion of estimates, installation rates, and costs for the U.S. Marine Corps. -
Letter to Robert E. Cummings on Contract for Project Lamp Light
The letter, written by Buckminster Fuller's assistant, John Dixon, to Robert E. Cummings, discusses the supposed contract details for Project Lamp Light and the financial arrangements for the consultation. -
Letter Regarding Permission of Sales
The letter details clarification and follow up to a potential researcher that had been in conversation with Buckminster Fuller regarding assistance of projects. -
Gyorgy Kepes, MIT
This letter details plans on a proposed exhibit at the Walker Art Center featuring Buckminster Fuller's work. -
The Editor, Encyclopedia Britannica
Letter regarding the 1954 Yearbook publication and its mention of the dome airlifts used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The letter details authorship requests for Fuller's dome airlift designs. -
Donald W. Robertson, Patent Counsel to Geodesic, Inc.
The letter, written to the Patent Counsel to Geodesics, Inc. and Synergetics, Inc., details Buckminster Fuller's Octet Truss, also known as the Octahedron-Tetrahedron Truss. -
Chambliss Publication Service
The letter details plans for the installation of a geodesic dome and includes references to various resources documenting past geodesic dome design strategies and planning. -
Brigadier General Harold E. Watson, Dymaxion Airocean World Map
The letter details potential licensing agreements with Air Force officials to use Dymaxion cartographic transformation patent. -
Aviation Division Marine Corps, Martin Wager
The two letters between the Aviation Division of the Marine Corps and Martin Wagner detail a possible patent infringement on the building of a spherical shelter for the Marine Corps. -
Cablegram from Afghanistan
A cablegram from Afghanistan by John Dixon to James Fitzgibbon, Geodesic, Inc. Reporting on the opening of a geodesic dome in Afghanistan, the erection of the U.S. Pavillion, and its international acclaim at the 1956 Jeshyn Fair. -
Template Letter for Accepting Invitation, 1956
A template letter detailing Buckminster Fuller accepting an invitation to a project collaboration with an architecture school at a university. -
Donald W. Robertson, patents
The letter written by Buckminster Fuller's assistant details information regarding Fuller's patents and its relation to another colleague with its own patent on a design for a tent. The letter also includes mentioning of Fuller's various publications and designs. -
Proposed Swedish Domes
The letter is regarding the project planning and installation of Swedish domes. -
Letter regarding geodesic dome at school of art
The letter is regarding an erection of a dome at an unnamed academic art institution and details license permits needed for the installation. -
Letter to pitch designs for aircraft company to install dome, 1955
The letter by Buckminster Fuller details a new structural design and its installation project. This includes a potential collaboration with the aircraft company in installing the design. -
Letter from architectural students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A thank you letter to Buckminster Fuller from the graduate class in architecture at MIT. -
Letter from the American Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1956
The letter details the events of the Jeshyn Trade Fair including visitor statistics of various Pavilions and the success of the Geodesic Dome. -
Installation of geodesic domes, 1958
The letter details the process in which an academic institution can use Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome on their campus. -
Letter to Stuart Campbell regarding student license, 1958
The letter details information about the student license for Buckminster Fuller's design. The license allows students the legal right to create their own work within a university setting.