Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (1895 – 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a Unitarian and an early environmental activist. He was aware of the Earth's finite resources, and promoted a principle that he termed "ephemeralization", which according to futurist and Fuller disciple Stewart Brand, he coined to mean "doing more with less". Resources and waste from cruder products could be recycled into making more valuable products, increasing the efficiency of the entire process. Fuller also introduced synergetics, a term which he used broadly as a metaphor for communicating experiences using geometric concepts, and more specifically the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on total system behavior unpredicted by the behavior of any isolated components. Fuller coined this term long before the term synergy became popular.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was influenced by Alfred Korzybski's idea of general semantics. In the 1950s, Fuller attended seminars and workshops organized by the Institute of General Semantics.
In his 1970 book I Seem To Be a Verb, he wrote: "I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe."
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by The Buckminster Fuller Institute or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a Unitarian and an early environmental activist. He was aware of the Earth's finite resources, and promoted a principle that he termed "ephemeralization", which according to futurist and Fuller disciple Stewart Brand, he coined to mean "doing more with less". Resources and waste from cruder products could be recycled into making more valuable products, increasing the efficiency of the entire process. Fuller also introduced synergetics, a term which he used broadly as a metaphor for communicating experiences using geometric concepts, and more specifically the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on total system behavior unpredicted by the behavior of any isolated components. Fuller coined this term long before the term synergy became popular.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was influenced by Alfred Korzybski's idea of general semantics. In the 1950s, Fuller attended seminars and workshops organized by the Institute of General Semantics.
In his 1970 book I Seem To Be a Verb, he wrote: "I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe."
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by The Buckminster Fuller Institute or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Richard Buckminster Fuller |
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| Door of perception |
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| Montréal Biosphere |
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| Montréal Biosphere |
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| Montréal Biosphere |
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| 1965, Blueprint, Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome patent drawing |
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| Geodesic Structures - Monohex |
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| Union Tank Car Dome |
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| Laminar Geodesic Dome |
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| Geode in France |
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| "Pneuhaus" temporary Bubble Dome is made from hundreds of TPU balls |
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| Autonomous robotic garden |
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| Fly's Eye Dome, Miami, Fl |
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| Fly's Eye Dome, Miami, Fl |
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| Fly's Eye Dome, Miami, Fl |
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| Fly's Eye Dome, Miami, Fl |
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| Dome Home |
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| The Utopian Impulse |
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| Dymaxion |
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| 1933, Dynamaxion |
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| 1933, three-wheeled Dymaxion 4 Door |
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| Building construction - Dymaxion Deployment unit |
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| Dymaxion Dwelling machine - Wichita House |
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| Africa Waterbank School |
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| Dymaxion 2 |
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| Dymaxion House |
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| Dymaxion House |
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| Synergetic building construction - Octetruss |
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| Unbuilt Project, Model of Triton City, 1967 |
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| Prefabricated Dymaxion Bathroom |
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| Fountain Factory- The 90 Percent Automatic Cotton Mill |
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| 1976, Complex of Jitterbugs |
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| Non Symmetrical Tension-Integrity Structures |
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| Thirty Strut Tensegrity Sphere |
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| Twelve Degrees of Freedom, 1980 |
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| ON OFF’s BOULEvard tensegrity ball |
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| Tensible-integrity Structures - Tensegrity |
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| Vector Equilibrium Jitterbug Duo, 1980 |
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| Arctic Polar Cross Airway Station, 1928 |
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| Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map, 1980 |
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| Watercraft - Rowing needles |
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| Futuristic inflatable spa engulfs visitors in mist on the River Thames |
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| Inspired Bioclimatic Dome |
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| Inspired Pavilion for Baltimore’s Artscape Festival |
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