Title & Author:

Montreal's geodesic dreams : Jeffrey Lindsay and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division / edited by Cammie McAtee ; with contributions by Carlo Carbone and Réjean Legault = Montréal et le rêve géodésique : Jeffrey Lindsay et la Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division / sous la direction de Cammie McAtee ; avec des contributions de Carlo Carbone et Réjean Legault.

Publication:

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada : Dalhousie Architectural Press, November 2017.

Description:

120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Series:

Canadian modern = Le Canada moderne

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Geodesic dreams : Jeffrey Lindsay and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division / Cammie McAtee -- Fostering geodesics in Canada from Baie d'Urfé to Vancouver : the development of Jeffrey Lindsay's structural framework (1950-57) / Carlo Carbone -- The death and life of Buckminster Fuller's US Pavilion at Expo 67 / Réjean Legault.
Parallel texts in English and French.

Exhibitions:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre de design de l'UQAM, Montréal, Québec, from September 21 to December 10, 2017.

Summary:

R. Buckminster Fuller's American Pavilion at Expo 67 has long been recognized as an icon of Montreal's urban landscape. Yet this high point was only a part of the story of Canada's contributions to developing the geodesic dome. Based on previously unpublished archival material, 'Montreal's geodesic dreams' sheds light on the pioneering explorations of designer Jeffrey Lindsay (1924-84) and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division (1949-56). This ebullient period of collaborative creativity and technological optimism placed Montreal at the forefront of dome experimentation in the 1950s - a moment when geodesic domes seized the architectural and popular imagination and sprouted up across the country in virtually every conceivable program and context. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, documents, drawing instruments and design tools from the Jeffrey Lindsay Foundation of the University of Calgary's Canadian Architectural Archives and various other archives and collections.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

9780929112718 (paperback)
0929112717 (paperback)

Subject:

Lindsay, Jeffrey, 1924-1984 Exhibitions.
Lindsay, Jeffrey, 1924-1984 Expositions.
Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division Expositions.
Geodesic domes Canada Design and construction Exhibitions.
Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal History Exhibitions.
Dômes géodésiques Canada Conception et construction Expositions.
Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire Expositions.
Architecture
Geodesic domes Design and construction
Canada
Québec Montréal

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

McAtee, Cammie D. (Cammie Dale), 1966- editor.
Carbone, Carlo, contributor.
Legault, Réjean, 1956- contributor.
Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre de design, host institution.
Montreal's geodesic dreams : Jeffrey Lindsay and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division.
Montreal's geodesic dreams : Jeffrey Lindsay and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division. French.
Canadian modern (Dalhousie Architectural Press)

Jeffrey Lindsay and the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division
Montréal et le rêve géodésique : Jeffrey Lindsay et la Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division
Jeffrey Lindsay et la Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299033
Call No.: BIB 245165
Status: Available