“Part of the [geodesic] domes appeal is their status as metaphor. They are Whole Systems. They draw together functional shelter, elusively simple laws of nature's structuring symmetry, mandalas, medium high math, countercultural community (or solitude, as you wish) Eskimo simplicity, and utter up-to-dateness. None of the freaks is so unwashed as to forget his dependence on computer printouts of chord factors, substituted by a NASA study on “Advanced Structural Design for Future Space Missions.” (Those tables, the scoop of the first Dome book and much augmented in the second, spell exactly the difference between the precision fit that gives geodesics their incredible strength and the chicken coop funk of every boys backyard playhouse).”.
written about the domes at the 'alternative' Pacific High School in Santa Cruz mountains, '71