Hasta La Ideas

This year, Frank Gehry declared his love of ceramics and Richard Meier returned to his product design roots, so it just makes sense that during this two year-long architecture industry downturn, Norman Foster would also pick up something else to keep him busy, and so he’s taken up automobile building. More specifically, one car in particular, Buckminster Fuller‘s Dymaxion. While Fuller only wound up building three of these oval shaped cars in the mid-30s, and only one remains in a museum in Reno, the Guardian reports that Foster has long been fascinated with the thing, ever since he worked for Fuller in the early 1970s. He set out to build number four, which he wound up doing during 18 months of work with a team of car restorers and experts. It now sits, until the end of the month, at its first public showing in the Ivorypress gallery in Madrid, which happens to be running both a Fuller exhibition and has just published the new book, Norman Foster Drawings 1958-2008. The Guardian‘s story has some great details on its construction and CNN has a handful of photos from the gallery, including some with Foster standing next to his prized new auto.

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