Buckminster Fuller, Jack Masey, Terry Rankine, and Peter Floyd, "The Men Who Created the United States Pavilion at Expo '67," circa 1967
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Expo 67, held in Montreal, Canada, was the most attended world's fair of the 20th century. The United States pavilion, a 250-foot-diameter geodesic dome designed by visionary Buckminster Fuller and architect Shoji Sadao, was an interactive environmental exhibit. It remains the most iconic and fondly remembered of Fuller's built designs. This pavilion survives today as an attraction called the Biosphere.
Expo 67, held in Montreal, Canada, was the most attended world's fair of the 20th century. The United States pavilion, a 250-foot-diameter geodesic dome designed by visionary Buckminster Fuller and architect Shoji Sadao, was an interactive environmental exhibit. It remains the most iconic and fondly remembered of Fuller's built designs. This pavilion survives today as an attraction called the Biosphere.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
circa 1967
Subject Date
circa 1967
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.120.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10.125 in
Inscriptions
Typewritten sheet adhered on back: THE MEN WHO CREATED THE UNITED STATES PAVILION AT EXPO 67 / These men represent the four principal organizations whose / combined talents produced the unique Exhibition of the United / States of America at the Canadian World Exhibition. Left to / right: R. Buckminster Fuller of Fuller and Sadao of Carbondale, / Illinois, architects of the Pavilion structure; Jack Masey, / Chief of Design and Operations for the Exhibition and an officer / of the United States Information Agency, organizers of the / Exhibition for the Government of the United States; Terry / Rankine of Cambridge Seven Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, / and New York, architects and designers of the interior structures / and exhibits; and Peter Floyd of Geometrics, Inc., of Cambridge, / Massachusetts, architects of the Pavilion structure in association / with Fuller and Sadao.
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