The Cold War Technology That Created A New Architecture
Helmut Jahn, Gordon Bunshaft, and Richard Rogers all tapped the same company to help build their tensile structures.
In the 1950s, the U.S. was building a transcontinental network to surveil the perceived Soviet threat. Across the Arctic, radar domes were popping up like mushrooms—and one aerospace engineer was responsible for the design of these so-called radomes. Only a decade or two later, he would be collaborating with world-famous architects.