David Hartman Selected Works Blog Contact	“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” Buckminster Fuller “I go for anything new that might improve the past. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.” Clara Barton A geodesic dome is the only man-made structure that becomes proportionally stronger as it increases in size. Geodesic domes are far stronger as complete units than the individual elements would suggest.		The architect Clive Wilkinson transformed an old, historic building in Richmond into an open, creative space for the new home of VCU Brandcenter, launched January 2008. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller 2007, Holiday Poster / Mailer.
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