Buckminster Fuller

The Life and Influence of Buckmintser Fuller

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Lloyd's of London

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Swiss Re

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Swissre Google Streetview

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Geodesic Dome Model

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Several London Olympic buildings with Fuller’s principles of design coming into play.

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London Stadium

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Modern Influences: Look no further than the London Olympics.

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Radiolaria, marine microorganisms first discovered in the 1800s.

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How nature builds: Examinations of human tissue showed structures that resembled geodesic and tensegretic basketwork.

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Joachim Krausse, and Claude Lichtenstein. Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, the Art of Design Science. Baden: L. Müller, 1999. Print. 

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Tensegrity.

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Don’t fight forces, use them.

Shelter 5, 1932 

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Tensegrity “The word ‘tensegrity’ is an invention: a contraction of ‘tensional integrity.’ Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder”

- Richard Buckminster Fuller (Synergetics, p. 372.)

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Scaling Up: Spruce Goose Dome 1976

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Bucky designed a cardboard dome for the Trienalle di Millano of 1954.  

Watch an installation in process, as the Whitney Museum builds a geodesic dome for Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. For more information on Buckminster Fuller, visithttp://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/about.jsp

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Dymaxion Deployment Unit Exterior, showing similarities to grain bin.

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Dymaxion Deployment Unit: Temporary relief housing during WWII.  Designed for Butler Manufacturing out of Kansas was designed to utilize their existing assembly line for grain bins.

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Dymaxion Bathroom, doing the most with the least.  2 stampings used to create entire bathroom.