Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2020 In 1979 Asha Deliverance sewed her first geodesic dome on an old Singer sewing machine, finishing it in time to …
Dome design toughens with size, regulates home/garden within by Kirsten Dirksen on November 14, 2020 When Buckminster Fuller conceived of the geodesic dome in the 1940s he was intrigued by the efficiency of a super-lightweight …
Nordic home encased within geodesic dome for passive solar by Kirsten Dirksen on February 28, 2016 In 1960 American architect/futurist Buckminster Fuller envisioned building a dome over Manhattan to regulate weather and air pollution. A half …
Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 18, 2015 At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child …
Steve Job’s Google of the 60s: Whole Earth + homestead tour by Kirsten Dirksen on October 31, 2011 Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog “one of the bibles of my generation”. He went on to explain in …
