Bruce Sherman glass geodesic model, no date.

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Bruce Sherman glass geodesic model, no date.

1 boxed model.

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Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

Hoffer Glass Company.

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Asawa, Ruth

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Born in Norwalk, California, Asawa is known for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts. In 1945, she attended Black Mountain College, where she was taught by Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, and Merce Cunningham, through whom she met David Tudor. Starting in 1960, she began to make drawings of family and friends, including Tudor. From the description of Portraits of David Tudor [graphic] / Ruth Asawa. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat recor...

Sherman, Bruce.

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Bruce Sherman was skilled at cabinetry and design, using innovative techniques for framing glass and wood. He was acquainted with the prominent artist/sculptor Ruth Asawa and her husband, architect Albert Lanier, also residents of Noe Valley in San Francisco. Through them, Bruce found work at Hoffer Glass Company south of Market. Bruce's window-framing work was sculptural, in that it involved many-faceted shapes, with deceptively simple-looking hexagonal or octagonal features. A culmination of t...