Interesting Person from History R. Buckminster Fuller: A Visionary of Design and Sustainability "Introduction: Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was a 20th-century American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Best known for his... See more

Today, the concept of synergy permeates everything from boardrooms to artspeak to hipster dinner party chatter — but it was Fuller who coined it as cultural currency in pioneering the study of synergetics, which concerns itself with the “behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.”

It is the kind of building that when entered can make you feel infused with the opportunity of a world very different from the one you used to know. This is the essence of a futurist architecture. It is the ethic to make a building that convinces people they are living in the future.