Drop City (2012)

Name: Drop City
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-08-23T16:20:03+02:00

Documentary | 82 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 82 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Joan Grossman

IMDb score: 9,0 (10)

Releasedate: 16 January 2012

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Drop City plot

In 1962, Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky, and Clark Richert were students at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Gene and Clark developed a concept they called Drop Art. Together with a number of other artists, writers and inventors, they built dazzling domes based on the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in geometric structure and solar energy. The Droppers had little building experience but they were bursting with exuberance and ingenuity. The domes cost next to nothing and were made from scrap wood, bottle caps and car roofs. Drop City became a laboratory for experimental building, and in 1966 Fuller himself honored Drop City with his Dymaxion Award for "poetic and economic structural achievements".