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.

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

Goetz Composites, fabricators of some of the most successful race boats in the world including three of today’s most high profile yachts as well as...

Dymaxion car by Richard Buckminster Fuller

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

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Geodesic Dome Delivery | Buckminster Fuller. Raleigh, NC 1954

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