CHARAS/ THE IMPROBABLE DOME BUILDERS

Originally published in 1973 and now published in an expanded edition, Charas: The Improbable Dome Builders is an intimate portrait in pictures and words of these dynamic young men and their community. The first half chronicles the trials and tribulations of build ing the dome, their intensive training, search for funding, accidental fires, holiday potlucks and Bucky visiting to see their incre dible work. In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary...[Read more]