{"id":766,"date":"2008-08-17T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/rekveld\/wp\/?p=766"},"modified":"2019-08-24T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:38:08","slug":"domes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"domes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/domebook2cover.jpg\" alt=\"domebook2cover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I have become the proud owner of an original &#8216;Domebook 2&#8217; from 1971, edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_Kahn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lloyd Kahn<\/a>. It was intended as a resource for people who wanted to build their own geodesic domes. It covers the mathematics of geodesic domes in a very practical way, with data on angles and lengths supplied by the same J.D.Clinton who did research on this <a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=254253&amp;id=2&amp;qs=Ns%3DPublicationYear%257C0%26N%3D4294942352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for NASA<\/a> (resulting in his paper with the very cool title &#8220;Structural design concepts for future space missions&#8221;). Most of the book consists of practical hints and stories by people who built their own domes and often live in them. In retrospect it has become a great document about the alternative scene in 1971 around these space-age structures. The pictures are great, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dome1.jpg\" alt=\"dome1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dome2.jpg\" alt=\"dome2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I have become the proud owner of an original &#8216;Domebook 2&#8217; from 1971, edited by Lloyd Kahn. It was intended as a resource for people who wanted to build their own geodesic domes. It covers the mathematics of geodesic domes in a very practical way, with data on angles and lengths supplied by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">domes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-umwelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}