NEW YORK TIMES: ELLEN BURSTYN HONORS A FRIENDSHIP WITH A FUTURIST

Author: Kathryn Shattuck

Author: Kathryn Shattuck

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In “The House of Tomorrow,” opening Friday, April 27, Ms. Burstyn, 85, plays Josephine Prendergast, a Fuller disciple raising her orphaned grandson, Sebastian (Asa Butterfield), according to the visionary’s principles. (Through technology and planning, Fuller posited, an ordinary man can become a superman.) Prendergast did all this while residing in an example of Fuller’s crowning architectural achievement: the geodesic dome.  Read the full interview here.