Verano de 1948. Buckminster Fuller en Black Mountain College. La arquitectura como acontecimiento

RESUMEN. El paso de Buckminster Fuller por Black Mountain College, y que ha asociado permanentemente su nombre al de esta institucion de North Carolina, se concentra y se limita a tres episodios: el experimento fracasado de erigir una cupula geodesica con ayuda de los estudiantes en el verano de 1948, su participacion en la obra de Eric Satie promovida por Cage y Cunnigham ese mismo verano, y su nuevo experimento con una cupula geodesica en 1949, esta vez si conseguido con ayuda del equipo de ingenieros que habia realizado los calculos estructurales. Es cierto que la mayoria del tiempo pasado en North Carolina fue dedicado por Fuller a sus conferencias y conversaciones con profesores y alumnos, a exponer sus teorias sobre los temas mas diversos e incluso a la lectura de sus poemas. Pero queda en la memoria colectiva unicamente el dato de que fue alli, en Black Mountain, donde Buckminster Fuller erigio la primera cupula geodesica de su carrera, una de las construcciones mas identificadas con el y cuya ambicion de cubrir grandes espacios, o incluso ciudades enteras, estaba muy lejos de lo limitado de ese primer ensayo con una burbuja de vinilo multicolor que no sobrepasaba las dimensiones de una cabana. SUMMARY. The time spent by Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College, and which has permanently associated his name to this North Carolina institution, is focused upon, and limited to, three episodes: the failed experiment to erect a geodesic dome with the help of the students during the summer of 1948; his participation in the work of Eric Satie promoted by Cage and Cunningham that same summer; and, his new experiment with a geodesic dome in 1949, this time with the help of the engineering team which had made the structural calculations. Most of the time spent by Fuller in North Carolina was dedicated to his lectures and conversations with teachers and students, to expound his theories on the most diverse subjects and even to the reading of his poems. However, all that remains in the collective memory is that it was at Black Mountain where Buckminster Fuller erected the first geodesic dome of his career. This is one of the constructions most identified with him, and his ambitions to cover huge spaces, or even whole cities, were to be developed far beyond this limited, first test with a vinyl, multicoloured bubble no bigger than a cabin