| 释义 |
dymaxion, a.|daɪˈmæksɪən|
Also Dymaxion.
[Arbitrary; see note below.]
In the philosophies of construction and design of R. Buckminster Fuller: yielding the greatest possible efficiency in terms of the available technology, ‘doing the most with the least’. Hence dymaxion car, dymaxion house, dymaxion map, etc.
In a private communication (July 1969) Mr. Buckminster Fuller said that the word was coined for him in 1929 by his business associates as a ‘word-portrait’ of him and his work. They were concerned to form a euphonious word of four syllables based on words that occurred in Fuller's own description of his prototype (Dymaxion) house, viz. dy(namism, max(imum, and ion.
1929R. B. Fuller in Archit. Forum July 104 (caption) Elevation and Isometric Drawing of the Dymaxion House. 1934Sat. Rev. 2 June 1/1 The author [sc. H. G. Wells], during his recent visit to America, with the new Dymaxion car. 1960R. W. Marks Dymaxion World of B. Fuller 9/1 Another dimension of this Weltenschauung is expressed by the term Dymaxion, a label Fuller has used to qualify the implication of his various inventions, developments, and projected ideas. Ibid. 34/1 The Dymaxion bathroom was designed by Fuller for ultimate production in plastics, when plastics had been developed to an adequate point. Ibid. 49/1 The Dymaxion map was not a shadow projection, as are other global maps, but a topological transfer of a high frequency form of Fuller's totally-triangulated systems from the surface of a sphere to the equivalent triangular spaces on the faces of a polyhedron. 1962R. Davenport in R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization p. vi, At his own factory in Bridgeport he designed and built the first Dymaxion car. |