Informational piece about architect Buckminster Fuller based on his design of the Dymaxion Map
Building the geodesic dome added to the Ford Rotunda in Dearborne, Michigan in 1953. TC Howard designed the dome for Buckminster Fuller.
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Richard B. Fuller Jr. “Bucky” 1895-1983 Design Scientist Inventor / Comprehensive Polymath Thinker American inventor, machinist, mechanic, laborer, WW1 Navy soldier, industrial manager, scientist, engineer, architect, designer, author, teacher, professor, and genius Tensegrity, Geodesic domes, Spaceship Earth, Ephemeralization, Synergy, Alternative, Vehicles, Fullerenes, Bucky balls, Tetrahedral Molecular Geometry, Drop City “I was brought up under an…
Buckminster Fuller: the visionary of structure
4D House model (later called the Dymaxion House), 1928. Photo: Alana Range Podcast @ www.nyas.org/snc/podcasts.asp
R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, inventor, author, and theorist. He taught at BMC during the 1948 and 1949 summer sessions.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
After starting an article about him in The New Yorker, I was pleased to see some of Buckminster Fuller's works on display at Sebastian + Barquet
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” ~ Buckminster Fuller #quotes #buckminsterfuller #architect
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A look at the designs that invented the spirit of tech.
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Calvin Tomkins profiles the architect, inventor, and visionary.
video from the Ford Museum's exhibit in Detroit, MI on 1/06/08
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Triton was a concept for an anchored floating city that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges and such to the mainland. It was a collection of tetrahedronal structures with apartments and such. Sources: Triton floating city, DPR Barcelona.
Durch Transdisziplinarität neues Wissen schaffen ist ein Leitmotiv, dem sich Buckminster Fuller - einzigartiger Hybrid zwischen Theoretiker, Architekt, Designer, Autor, Ingenieur und Pädagoge - zeit seines Lebens widmete.
R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics Folio, 1977. Screenprint, sheet: 36 × 23 7/8 in. (91.4 × 60.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Leandro R. Rizzuto 2007.170.10
