Buckminster Fuller Institute, Williamsburg

Just visited the BFI in Brooklyn yesterday on North 11th between Driggs and Bedford. They have a fine reading room to satisfy all your Fuller needs, and a great timeline of Fuller's life and accomplishments that I need to go back and look over thoroughly. In particular, learned about the troubled history of the Dymaxion car which, though built in the 20s and 30s, still looks futuristic to this day. Excluded from an auto show at Madison Square Garden in July 1933, Fuller simply parked it outside the event, and traffic was stalled for blocks as passers-by slowed to a crawl to examine it, upstaging the auto show itself. A fatal crash in the car the following October would lead to its loss of support and finance, though Fuller insisted that the accident's blame lay with the other cars involved, not his ground-breaking, stream-lined design.