Journal of Alta California

To Infinity and Beyond

It’s fitting that a mimeograph of R. Buckminster Fuller’s cautionary 4D Time World is the first image one sees upon entering the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s eclectic, exuberant exhibition . The futurist designer-architect’s chaotic print from 1928 warns of a planet plagued by strained resources and exploding population growth, where “2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80 years.”

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