Jean Hoston wrote this after the attacks of Sept 11, 2001

I live in a double domed house that was the last design of my old friend Buckminster Fuller, completed just before he died. I asked my house what words it would give you and it responded with Bucky's own. They came out of a time of tremendous personal crisis in his life.

"So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else' opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my own inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth."

Much Love and High Regard,

Jean Houston

"R. Buckminster Fuller used geometric concepts to order and connect experiences and information into a single self-discipline. The result is a metaphysics as well as a physics. Synergetics (not to be confused with Dianetics) comprises Fuller's "explorations in the geometry of thinking" and is detailed in two thick volumes, Synergetics and Synergetics 2 (the contents of these volumes is now available via the web). Synergetics thoroughly permeates the rest of Fuller's writings as well. The invention for which Fuller is most famous, the geodesic dome, derives from his geometric explorations." | Synergetics home page |

"Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all, to feed everybody, clothe everybody, give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before—that we now have an option for all humanity to “make it” successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment." Buckminster Fuller, 1980 | Buckminster Fuller Institute .|

"The World Game Institute is a 25 year old not-for-profit education and research organization whose mission is to supply the perspective and information needed to solve the critical problems facing global society as we enter the twenty-first century."The World Game Institute

"What does tensegrity have to do with the human body? The principles of tensegrity apply at essentially every detectable size scale in the body. At the macroscopic level, the 206 bones that constitute our skeleton are pulled up against the force of gravity and stabilized in a vertical form by the pull of tensile muscles, tendons and ligaments (similar to the cables in Snelson's sculptures). In other words, in the complex tensegrity structure inside every one of us, bones are the compression struts, and muscles, tendons and ligaments are the tension-bearing members. At the other end of the scale, proteins and other key molecules in the body also stabilize themselves through the principles of tensegrity. My own interest lies in between these two extremes, at the cellular level." | The Architecture of Life|

"The Journal of World-Systems Research is an electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research on the modern world-system and earlier, smaller intersocietal networks. It is intentionally interdisciplinary in focus." | Journal of World-Systems Research |

| Architecture and The Environment |by DAvid Lloyd Jones

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