Dome Home Historic Preservation Recognition
As an established Illinois Historical Landmark, our Hall of Fame is Growing
Historic Renovation/Preservation
Established as a true historical landmark, with honors.
Image courtesy of Eric Long (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum)
Thad Heckman signing the Blueprint in Washington D.C with Robert Arzola, Historic Documentation Programs, and Catherine Levoie, Chief, Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service.
Thad Heckman, of the architectural practice 'Design Works', is a former board member of RBF Dome NFP and a retired SIU faculty.
The Library of Congress 2011 Holland Prize
Images courtesy Library of Congress
Fuller Dome Home Holland Prize Winning Drawing Pen and Ink Version.
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This reproduction of the Holland Prize is designed to recreate the illusion of a job-worn distressed blueprint. This version was created by Chris DeShazo from Thad Heckman's original winning drawing of the Fuller Dome Home.
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This colorization of the original rendering of the Holland Prize winning blueprint of the Fuller Dome Home was done by Kelsey Kaufmann Jordan.
Thad Heckman won the 2011 Holland Prize for his HABS measured drawing of the Richard Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois. The Library of Congress, in cooperation with the National Park Service and Architectural Record, recently announced the winners for the first two years of a new prize for the best single-sheet, measured drawing of an historic building, site or structure prepared to the standards of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), or the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).
Architectural Record June 3, 2013
Print versions of these drawings can be purchased in our Online store. This is a “Giclee“ print; high quality, archival stable paper and inks.
All proceeds from the sales of the print have been generously donated by Thad Heckman.
Lord Norman Foster with the 2011 Holland Prize Drawing:
The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller Dome Home. (copyright Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
