World-renowned architect, philosopher and teacher, R. Buckminster Fuller, designed the Center for Spirituality & Sustainability
* at SIUE in partnership with architect Shoji Sadao. Fuller, a former member of the SIU faculty, created the center's dome as a transparent replica of planet Earth. The building stands with surveyor-certified mathematical exactitude. Symmetrically astride the true planet Earth's "90th" western meridian of longitude. Standing under the dome our
planet's continents can be seen outlined against a transparent blue ocean, as they would be seen by X-rays if one descended by elevator from Edwardsville, IL to the center of the Earth, always keeping Edwardsville directly overhead.
The center's dome is also a true planetarium for the northern hemisphere (
picture of room).
To read more from Fuller's writing about the Center for Spirituality & Sustainability*, click on the following Word document or pdf file: Geoview by R. Buckminster Fuller.pdf
*Formerly known as the Religious Center
