Now that radical architecture is the status quo in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, it's easy to forget that historic countercultural visionaries once had to wade through plenty of eye rolls as they promoted their ideas.
In 1971, documentarian and Village Voice journalist Howard Smith interviewed inventor and urban futurist Buckminster Fuller about his ideas about urbanism, including wilder concepts like his proposal for a dome covering part of Manhattan. The interview was recently published in The Smith Tapes (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015), and it gives us a fascinating glimpse into how Fuller pitched his ideas.
