Richard buckminster fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller, designer of the geodesic dome, holds a geometric object that he calls tensegrity in 1983 | Photo credit: Suzanne Vlamis/AP.

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the exhibition brings the different strands of buckminster fuller's influential career together with original drawings and models and will be the first chance to see the recently completed recreation of the dymaxion car.

If human nature could be altered with revolutionary design, Buckminster Fuller might have been the man to do it. Not only was he an architectural and engineering visionary, but he also seemed primarily motivated by altruism, with a vision for the future that included a high quality of life for everyone rather than a handful … Continue reading "Buckminster Fuller Creates Striking, Two-Layer Posters to Illustrate His Life’s Work in 1981"

Montreal Biosphere. Montreal, Canada. 1976. Buckminster Fuller & Shoji Sadao

One of the great disservices done by modern education is that it programs us to worry about fixing our weaknesses not doubling down on our strengths. If you have a student that excels in Math and Physics, but does terribly in English Literature, what do you do with him? You put him in extra study classes for English literature. This makes no sense if you come at the issue like a scientist.

Metropolis editor Mikki Brammer sat down with Buckminster Fuller’s daughter to discuss what Bucky would think of the world today.

R. Buckminster Fuller was an American engineer, architect, and futurist who developed the geodesic dome—the only large dome that can be set directly on the ground as a complete structure and the only practical kind of building that has no limiting dimensions (i.e., beyond which the structural

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AD takes a look at the portfolio of the serial inventor known for the geodesic dome and other forward-looking architecture

Frank Gehry... Norman Foster... Renzo Piano.... These are some of the names that immediately come to mind at the mention of architecture, yet none of these architects can top the volume of shelter built on the designs of Buckminster Fuller.

Image 4 of 7 from gallery of Spotlight: Buckminster Fuller. © Wikimedia user Edgy01 (Dan Lindsay) licensed under CC BY 3.0

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Image 11 of 12 from gallery of AD Classics: Montreal Biosphere / Buckminster Fuller. Photograph by Kalin, Survey of Building Materials, Systems, and Techniques

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I recently posted that I would be visiting the Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I did indeed attend that exhibit, which was one of the better museum experiences I have had in a long time. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed in the exhibit, so I wont be able to share any of my own images. However, one of my favorite displays at the exhibit was one which showed several versions of Fullers dymaxion world maps, which…

Architectural Model found in Gumelnita (now Bulgaria), 4600BC Many ancient civilisations created architectural models or maquettes, often not to