If you have any mental image of Buckminster Fuller, you might picture him as a white-haired, bespectacled old man, standing in front of a chalkboard, holding up a model of a geodesic dome: a visionary ...
The massive blizzard that hammered Long Island last week has taken down an important sculpture. Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. As autumn light settled over ...
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Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring ...
This article was originally published on Common Edge. Today we know R. Buckminster Fuller primarily through his oeuvre of iconic objects and ideas created over the arc of a nearly 90-year life. Born ...
Footage from the fair projected on a huge screen in the performance space, thousands of people walking up through the structure, marveling at gargantuan paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and ...
I remember vividly my first meeting with Buckminster Fuller—or Bucky as he was more commonly known. It was in 1971 and he had been asked to design a theater beneath the quadrangle of St Peter’s ...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showing, for just a few more short days, an exhibit called "The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area." Fuller never actually lived in the Bay ...
Sure, he’s famous for giving us the geodesic dome — the super-lightweight building that gets stronger as it gets bigger — but Buckminster Fuller’s legacy extends way beyond the soccer-ball structure.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has announced six finalists for the 2016 Fuller Challenge, a competition now in its ninth cycle. The Fuller Challenge called for submissions from all fields that ...