Dome Architecture: Drop City and Beyond

Clark Richert Drop City Panorama, 1968
Archival digital print, 72 x 28 1/2 in
Courtesy the artist

Geodesic-based dome architecture was a persistent element of the counterculture landscape in the West. Over 2,000 rural communes were formed in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and the iconic Drop City, near Trinidad, Colorado, was the first of them to use domes.