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Ford Rotunda

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Creator(s)
architect: Albert Kahn (American, 1869-1942), designer: geodesic dome by R. Buckminster Fuller (American, 1895-1983)
Time period
creation date: built for Chicago's World Fair (Century of Progress Exposition), 1933, other date: disassembled and moved to Dearborn, 1935-1936, alteration date: dome added, 1952-1953, destruction date: destroyed in a fire, 1962
Location
Former Site: Chicago (Illinois, United States)
Former Site: Dearborn (Michigan, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
interior, geodesic dome
Work type
Rotunda (building)
Medium
limestone
steel
Keywords
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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