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<img src="30tnf3nucsglass1.jpg"> <p>Bruce Hamilton</p> <h4 align="left">What is tensegrity?</h4> <p>"The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.' Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guarenteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder"</p> <h4 align="right">- Richard Buckminster Fuller (exerpt from Synergetics, p. 372.)</h4> <p> <a href="http://www.tensegrity.org" target="_blank"><b>www.tensegrity.org</b></a><br> <a href="http://www.kennethsnelson.net" target="_blank"><b>www.kennethsnelson.net</b></a><br> <a href="http://www.bfi.org" target="_blank"><b>www.bfi.org</b></a><br> <a href="http://www.grunch.net/snelson" target="_blank"><b>www.grunch.net/snelson</b></a><br> <a href="http://www.geodesicdomes.com" target="_blank"><b>www.geodesicdomes.com</b></a> </p> <a href="mailto:store@tensegrity.com"><img src="book.jpg"></a><br> <h4>Catalog Essay for Kenneth Snelson Exhibition at:</h4> <p> Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. , June - August 1981<br> Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September - November 1981<br> Uiversity of Houston, Texas, January - February 1982<br> $25.00 (+8.25% CA Residents) personal checks, money orders and cashier's checks only.<br> PO Box 1817<br> San Leandro, CA 94577<br> Shipping charge: $4.95 within the continental U.S. Please direct inquiries regarding other shipping locations to: <a href="mailto:store@tensegrity.com">store@tensegrity.com</a> </p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-7523313-4881609"><img src="amazon.gif"></a></b><br> <a href="http://www.powells.com/search/DTSearch/search?kw=tensegrity&pokey=skeptopotamus"><img src="powells.gif"></a> <p> <a href="mailto:inquiry@tensegrity.com">contact us</a><br> <a href="bframe.htm" target="bframe">TENSEGRITY.com</a><br> <a href="privacy.htm" target="bframe">privacy policy</a> </p> <p>If you are viewing this text, your browser lacks the ability to read frames.</p>