This September, Edward Cella Art & Architecture will present R. Buckminster Fuller: Inventions and Models, an exhibition highlighting original prints, models, and other objects created by 20th century ...

R. Buckminster Fuller remains, 35 years after his passing, one of architecture’s preeminent minds. His proposals in construction, housing, mapping, and even transportation have a continued influence ...

Buckminster Fuller believed in solving problems by design. In fact, he believed that all the problems, large and small, facing Spaceship Earth—the term he coined for our planet—could be solved by ...

The biography “Inventor of the Future,” by Alec Nevala-Lee, explores the dreams and failures of an American optimist. By Witold Rybczynski When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

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 ...

If you’ve spent anytime inside, or even helped build, a geodesic dome, then you have encountered the legacy of architect, inventor, author, and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller. From the 1950s to the ...

CARBONDALE — On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to the SIU Carbondale Design Department got a crash course in thinking like Buckminster Fuller. “Bucky” was best known as an architect, who harnessed the ...

In the mid-1940s, long before the phrases “carbon footprint” and “green building” were coined, R. Buckminster Fuller urged people to lessen their environmental impact by taking up residence in ...