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Read more buckminster (115) Videos Video: Animating Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Worldview Buckminster Fuller was one of the most fascinating inventors, designers, and thinkers of his time. The geodesic dome, his most famous contribution, proved that lightweight structures could be impressively strong. “Bucky,” as he preferred to be called, saw this as a possibility to optimize homebuilding, which remained his passion for most of his life. “I … Viewpoints Deborah Berke on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map Courtesy Buckminster Fuller Institute When I became the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, I hung a copy of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map on the wall of my apartment in New Haven. I regularly entertain faculty, students, and visiting architects and scholars in my home, so Bucky’s map is more than just … Viewpoints What I Learned About Experience Design From Buckminster Fuller … astronauts posed with the earth behind them—not a collection of countries and borders, but a single whole planet. That moment was critical for me as it inspired me to create immersive environments that people experience together and where they learned to see our world as a large, interdependent system in which we all … Viewpoints A Conversation with Buckminster Fuller's Daughter, Allegra Fuller Snyder … vocabulary, but they had a true rapport. I think really, quite honestly, he respected the child, perhaps more than anybody else in the room, because he knew that they had such potential in them and he wanted to encourage that. Allegra Fuller Snyder and her father, Buckminster Fuller. Courtesy The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller Projects Midcentury Architecture Experiments on Film … power in 1959, Fidel Castro had an idea for a magnificent new cultural institution in Cuba. The idea, which occurred to him while he was playing a round of golf with Che Guevara (seriously), was to build the best art school in the world, right there on the golf course. Construction soon commenced on … Projects Fuller Institute Awards Alternative Green Building Standard … one of possibility. McLennan mentioned during the discussion that he prefers to “lead with inspiration, not guilt,” a small but crucial choice that’s echoed in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge itself. McLennan and The Living Building Challenge seem to be exactly the sort of “architects of the future” Bucky would have loved, and together they … Viewpoints Knud Lonberg-Holm: Bucky Fuller's Mentor, Modernism's Invisible Architect … construction.” Part of Lonberg-Holm’s vision for modern architecture was to organize the various components and systems that make up a building so that, after the Depression, architects might simply create houses or buildings from an existing kit of parts. (The Eames House, in this sense, is a perfect realization of his vision … Viewpoints 50 Books to Read This Fall … Proceeding from the October Revolution through to Stalin’s death, and dramatically oscillating in style—between avant-garde paroxysms and socialist realist schlock—the best of them still crackle with the febrile dreams of a better world. —S.M. DDR Limited Written by Stephan Schilgen and Andre M. Wyst Gestalten, 176 pp., $40 Trabant … Viewpoints Black Mountain College, America's Own Bauhaus … illuminating. By the fall of 1953, the number of students at Black Mountain College had dwindled to 15, and the institution became a sort of artist colony: “a community of subsistence dwellers,” in the words of drama teacher Wesley Huss. But the ideas it generated would live on into the next millennium. Founder John … Viewpoints Object Lessons From the Failed Utopias of Our Radical Past … Murphy’s Last Futures (Verso, 2016) is a crash course in the future-oriented building culture of the 1960s and ‘70s. Exposition architecture such as the Crystal Palace of 1851 figures centrally in Last Futures. Expo 70 in Osaka is a milepost in Murphy's timeline, marking the last time architectural form was linked … Metropolis Subscribe/Renew Give a Gift Jobs Newsletter Advertise About Contact Subscribe to our mailing list to receive the latest updates, exclusive content, subscription deals delivered straight to your inbox! © 2026 SANDOW. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Terms of Use Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information