* Buckminster Fuller, systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist

Hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller

* The Buckminster Fuller Institute is still in existence.

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Richard Buckminster " Bucky " Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and also the grandnephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.

The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller, 1967

Buckminster Fuller, lecture tour 1972-3, University of California at Santa Barbara.

* Heptaparallelohedron ( Buckminster Fuller )

The name was an homage to Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes it resembles.

Buckminsterfullerene ( C < sub > 60 </ sub >) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architectural modeler who popularized the geodesic dome.

One reason for this given by the researchers is that the B-80 is actually more like the original geodesic dome structure popularized by Buckminster Fuller, which uses triangles rather than hexagons.

Buckminster Fuller is generally credited with making the idea respectable in Western scientific circles in the 20th century.

Buckminster Fuller has been credited as the first to incorporate scientific ideas into a Gaia theory, which he did with his Dymaxion map of the Earth.

* 1895 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect, engineer, and author, deigned the Montreal Biosphère ( d. 1983 )

* 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.

A long period of collaboration with American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller began in 1968 and continued until Fuller's death in 1983.

The term synergy was refined by R. Buckminster Fuller, who analyzed some of its implications more fully and coined the term Synergetics.

Buckminster Fuller presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to develop a variety of technologies ranging from maps to designs for cars and houses which might lead to the development of such a utopia.

** Buckminster Fuller, American architect ( d. 1983 )

* Buckminster Fuller

Expo 67 featured 90 pavilions representing Man and His World themes, nations, corporations, and industries including the U. S. pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.

He worked on famous projects like the Century 21 Exposition, 1964 New York World's Fair and Expo 67, with such notables as Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breur, José Luis Sert, Edward Durell Stone, Minoru Yamasaki, Harry Weese, Moshe Safdie, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Alexander Calder, and Edward Larrabee Barnes.

Some 20 years later, R. Buckminster Fuller named the dome " geodesic " from field experiments with artist Kenneth Snelson at Black Mountain College in 1948 and 1949.

The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques.

Tensegrity domes, patented by Buckminster Fuller in 1962, are fabric-covered structures consisting of radial trusses made from steel cables under tension with vertical steel pipes spreading the cables into the truss form.

By 1971 the Maharishi had completed thirteen world tours and visited 50 countries and held a press conference with American inventor Buckminster Fuller at his first International Symposium on SCI at the university in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Noguchi did so and there met Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborated on several projects, including the modeling of Fuller's Dymaxion car.

Buckminster Fuller first described the concept in his 1970 paper Cosmic Costing, contrasting the photosynthesis on which natural capital and sustainable infrastructural capital depend, with the chemosynthesis of extracting and using fossil fuels.

The broad interpretation of " tool " coincided with that given by the designer, philosopher, and engineer Buckminster Fuller, though another thinker admired by Brand and some of his cohorts was Lewis Mumford, who had written about words as tools.

It became a pejorative term associated with the most bald and brutal ways to cover space, like cheap commercial buildings and sheds, then finally used, for example in academic criticism of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, simply as a synonym for ' gauche '.

They also regularly had long breakfasts with Buckminster Fuller and his wife.

Unlike ephemeralisation from Buckminster Fuller which assumes more must be done with less material ( because material is finite ), Archigram relies on a future of interminable resources.

The programme was first broadcast on 2 May 1964 with The World of Buckminster Fuller which explored the theories and structures of inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller and included the Horizon mission statement, The aim of Horizon is to provide a platform from which some of the world's greatest scientists and philosophers can communicate their curiosity, observations and reflections, and infuse into our common knowledge their changing views of the universe.

Johnston studied with Buckminster Fuller at Southern Illinois University, graduating with a degree in Environmental Systems Design.

Joseph D. Clinton had a long professional association with Buckminster Fuller.

On the 23rd September 1899, full control of the Tollemache estates at Ham and Buckminster was transferred from trustees to 9th Earl, William John Manners Tollemache, then aged about 40, in accordance with his grandfather's will.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute partnered with the Game Culture & Technology Lab at the University of California, Irvine to create a spaceship earth game, which Salen also worked on in 2005.

He later also worked with Buckminster Fuller on the Claverton Dome.

Buckminster ­ fullerene " Bucky Ball " with a chicken wire-like chemical structure

His mother worked as an administrator at the Post Office and his father ( who studied briefly with inventor Buckminster Fuller ) was an electrical engineer from Nigeria.