INFORMATION ABOUT GEODESIC DOME STRUCTURES

Jonathan with a small home-made geodesic dome composed of wooden dowels

For information about the Pantheon in Rome:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html
and
http://www.romanconcrete.com/chapt01.htm

For information on St Pauls Cathedral:
1) St Pauls Cathedral site:
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/rindex.htm

2) Whizz round the inside of St Pauls Cathedral:
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/about/panoramas/stpcenter.htm

For information about the Eden Project, Cornwall
http://www.edenproject.com/views/index.htm

For information about the Fullerenes:
1) The Creative Science Centre:
http://www.creative-science.org.uk

2) The Sussex University Fullerene Group:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/kroto/FullereneCentre/index.html

3) SEED web site (Schlumberger) - The International oil company's science educational web site.
Fullerene article was written by Bernd Eggen who used to be a researcher at Sussex.
http://www.slb.com/seed/watch/atlarge/fullerenes/index.htm

4) For information sheets on the 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize go to:
http://cnn.co.uk/EVENTS/1996/nobel.prize/

See the Canadian 'Geodesic Club House' web site for information about the 'newspaper' design:
http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/geodesic.html

SOME GOOD BOOKS:
Geodesic Domes, by Borin Van Loon, Tarquin Publications, 1997. ISBN 0-906212-92-8
The Buckminster Fuller Reader (Ed. J. Mellor), Pelican Books, 1970.
Design Hero's: Buckminster Fuller, Martin Pawley, Grafton, 1990.