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R. Buckminster Fuller: A Visionary of Design and Sustainability
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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was a 20th-century American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Best known for his... See more
“Just add lightness” became Fuller’s mantra. This led him to create his lightweight geodesic domes. Patented in 1954, these hemispherical lattice-grid structures composed of triangular elements offered the greatest volume of covered space for the least surface area. Strong, wind- and snow-proof, they found favor with the military, polar research ba
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Buckminster Fuller’s World Game and Its Legacy (Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies)
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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.”
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Fuller would expand this artifact strategy to all of his ideas, including his most famous one—the geodesic dome.
Robert Greene • Mastery
Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller’s Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975)
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Fuller points to the usefulness of useless knowledge as a critical element in this collective abundance and the salvation of our species: Specialization’s preoccupation with parts deliberately forfeits the opportunity to apprehend and comprehend what is provided exclusively by synergy.
