Editing Buckminster Fuller (section)

=== Recovery ===

In 1927, Fuller resolved to think independently which included a commitment to "the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them&nbsp;... finding ways of ''doing more with less'' to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more."{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} By 1928, Fuller was living in [[Greenwich Village]] and spending much of his time at the popular café [[Romany Marie]]'s,<ref name="HaberGlueck">{{cite web |url= http://www.haberarts.com/fuller.htm |title= Before Buckyballs: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi |author-link= John Haber |first=John |last= Haber |website=Haber's Arts Reviews}}<br /> See also: {{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/design/19nogu.html |title= The Architect and the Sculptor: A Friendship of Ideas |first= Grace |last=Glueck |author-link=Grace Glueck |newspaper=The New York Times |date= May 19, 2006 | access-date=April 27, 2010}}</ref> where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and [[Eugene O'Neill]] several years earlier.<ref name="Sieden-p74">Lloyd Steven Sieden. ''Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work'' (pp.&nbsp;74, 119–142). New York: [[Perseus Books Group]], 2000. {{ISBN|0-7382-0379-3}}. p.&nbsp;74: "Although O'Neill soon became well known as a major American playwright, it was Romany Marie who would significantly influence Bucky, becoming his close friend and confidante during the most difficult years of his life."</ref> Fuller accepted a job decorating the interior of the café in exchange for meals,<ref name="HaberGlueck"/> giving informal lectures several times a week,<ref name="Sieden-p74"/><ref name="Haskell">{{cite web|url=http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/features/buckminster_ful.html |title=Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi |first=John |last=Haskell |work=Kraine Gallery Bar Lit, Fall 2007 |access-date=April 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513065703/http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/features/buckminster_ful.html |archive-date=May 13, 2008 }}</ref> and models of the [[Dymaxion house]] were exhibited at the café. [[Isamu Noguchi]] arrived during 1929—[[Constantin Brâncuși]], an old friend of Marie's,<ref name="Biography">{{cite book |author-link=Robert Schulman (journalist) |first=Robert |last=Schulman |title=Romany Marie: The Queen of Greenwich Village |pages=85–86, 109–110 |location=[[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]] |publisher=Butler Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-884532-74-0}}</ref> had directed him there<ref name="HaberGlueck"/>—and Noguchi and Fuller were soon collaborating on several projects,<ref name="Haskell"/><ref name="Interview">{{cite web |url= http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/tranSCRIPTs/noguch73.htm |title= Interview with Isamu Noguchi conducted by Paul Cummings at Noguchi's studio in Long Island City, Queens |date=November 7, 1973 |work=[[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] Archives of American Art}}</ref> including the modeling of the [[Dymaxion car]] based on recent work by [[Aurel Persu]].<ref name="Gorman">{{cite web |url= http://hotgates.stanford.edu/Bucky/dymaxion/noguchi.htm |title= Passenger Files: Isamu Noguchi, 1904–1988 |first= Michael John |last= Gorman |work= Towards a cultural history of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car |publisher= [[Stanford University|Stanford]] Humanities Lab |date= March 12, 2002 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070613214749/http://hotgates.stanford.edu/Bucky/dymaxion/noguchi.htm |archive-date= June 13, 2007 |df= mdy-all }} Includes several images.</ref> It was the beginning of their lifelong friendship.