Friday, September 12 - Saturday, September 13
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at Astor Place
New York, NY
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Whitney Museum's website
Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century.
Friday, September 12 - 7pm
Keynote Roundtable
- Sanford Kwinter, Rice University
- Michael Sorkin, Michael Sorkin Studio
- Moderated by Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union
- Introduction to the symposium by Allegra Fuller Snyder
Saturday, September 13 - 10 am
On Architecture, Design, and Science
- Peter Galison, Harvard University
- Chuck Hoberman, Designer, Artist, Engineer, and Inventor
- Felicity Scott, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
- Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union
- Moderated by K. Michael Hays, Whitney Museum of American Art; Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Saturday, September 13 - 1 pm
On Influence and Contemporary Art
- Carol Bove, artist
- Pedro Reyes, artist
- Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Victoria Vesna, artist
- Moderated by Dana Miller, Whitney Museum of American Art
This symposium will run in conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 26 - September 21, 2008. It is co-sponsored by The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union.
Admission to the Buckminster Fuller Symposium is free for Whitney Museum members, Architectural League members and Cooper Union faculty, students and staff. All free tickets are will call.
For Whitney member reservations please e-mail memberinfo (at) whitney (dot) org.
For Architectural League member reservations please e-mail rsvp (at) archleague (dot) org.
For Cooper Union faculty, student or staff reservations please e-mail fullerrsvp (at) cooper (dot) edu.
Whitney members, Architectural League members and Cooper Union faculty, students, and staff will be required to show their member identification cards or institutional ID cards both days of the event in order to pick up complimentary tickets at the door.
General admission to the Buckminster Fuller Symposium is $8; students and seniors with valid I.D. pay $6. One ticket guarantees admission for both the Keynote Roundtable on Friday, September 12 and day sessions on Saturday, September 13. Tickets can be purchased at the Whitney Museum Admissions Desk or online through the link below. (Note: a $1.25 processing fee applies to each ticket package purchased online).
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Whitney Museum's website
