Counterculture artist and founding member of the Lama Foundation. Co-coined the word "zome" with Steve Baer.
From the Dome Cookbook (p. 24): Baer and Durkee agreed the structures "really were not domes because they are not symmetrical. Stretching the zones of a zonahedra makes it asymmetrical. Durkee said 'they are zones.'" Baer was "very excited by this word" and it spread through the network to protect builders against people calling their structures "geodesic domes and Fuller type domes."
Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) notes Durkee visiting Doug Engelbart's ARC offices — placing him at the intersection of the counterculture and early computing networks that Turner's book traces.
Later took the name Nooruddeen Durkee following conversion to Islam.