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Caption Contest: DYMAXION
October 22, 2010
What you see up there is Pritzker Prize-winning, globe-trotting British architect Sir Norman Foster posing with his meticulously restored Dymaxion car, directly inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s flying car of the future from the 1930s.
This is a gold mine of a story — and we’ve got details on Foster’s Dymaxion No. 4 after the break — but in the meantime, we want to hear from you. Caption this picture and win something from our archive of incredible design books!
Put your pithiest commentary in our comments section below, and we’ll select the best one to win a prize. (Anything from the AIA Guide to New York to a party pack from the Venice Biennale to a monograph on Peter Rose.) UPDATE: Congrats to Phillip, for the very pithy comment “This will go great with my Gherkin.”
What did old Bucky Fuller have in mind for the Dymaxion, anyway? The vehicle, possessed of blimp shape and carried on a chassis by only three wheels, “looked like a VW camper van crossed with a pinball flipper.”







