NC State School of Design

The School of Design at North Carolina State, Raleigh — a mid-century centre of American design education and one of the southern nodes through which Fuller's geometry travelled.

The school published the Student Publication of the School of Design from Vol. 1 (1951) through Vol. 25 (1977). In 1977 the Harrye Lyons Design Library compiled a 136-page cumulative author and subject index to that run, which the corpus holds in full transcription — a map of what the school thought worth publishing across a quarter century.

Henry L. Kamphoefner was Dean of the School of Design, building it into one of the most influential American design programmes of the mid-twentieth century and a hub of the modernist culture in which Fuller's geodesic and Dymaxion ideas circulated.

Role in Fuller's world

The School of Design is the academic environment, rather than a single collaboration, that carried Fuller's ideas into a generation of American designers. Its Student Publication is a primary record of how his geometry was taught, argued over, and absorbed outside his own offices.

See Also

• Henry L. Kamphoefner — Dean who built the programme
• Duncan Stuart — School of Design figure in the geometric line
• Student Publication of the School of Design — Index — the 1951–1977 cumulative index

Sources

• INDEX — Student Publication of the School of Design (1951–1977) — the publication run, the Harrye Lyons index, and the school's place at NC State