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11.) Fuller's Earth

Over one day ago | Wed Dec 24 0:00:00 PST 2008

When he died in 1983, Buckminster Fuller was the world?s most beloved designer, a pioneer of bold new geometric concepts in transportation (the streamlined Dymaxion Car), housing (the geodesic dome, a lightweight hemisphere of connected ...

From Edward Tenner

12.) Buckminster Fuller: The Billionaires of Spaceship Earth « relationary

Over one day ago | Wed Dec 17 1:23:00 PST 2008

I never regarded R. Buckminster Fuller as a true revolutionary until I began reading his final book, Critical Path. The above quote from the preface clearly summarizes his position: The people in power are artificially maintaining the ...

From grant czerepak

13.) Ant Farmers

Over one day ago | Tue Dec 2 17:37:00 PST 2008

Every one who was "alive" in that period was inspired by Buckminster Fuller's "doing more with less" and taking care of humanity - not with politics (although the politics was mostly left) but with advances in technology and science. ...

From M. Simon

14.) Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: The discovery of ...

Over one day ago | Fri Nov 14 0:01:00 PST 2008

The discovery was coined buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs after famed architect Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes and molecularly-inspired architectural design concepts. Fullerenes opened a new branch of chemistry and all ...

From Alice Agogino

15.) Asoka « Rewiring the System

2 hours, 31 minutes ago | Tue Jan 6 0:39:00 PST 2009

Not every writing hurls toward becoming, as this conversation sails through digital space, some coalesced construction we could look over my shoulder or I yours and listen to the reading of the writing. I do not have the meter for ...

From unknown

16.) Adaptive Architecture (4): Current Adaptive Building Technology

Over one day ago | Fri Nov 28 3:20:00 PST 2008

The Skybreak is an evolution of the concept of pavilion architecture and was first devised by students of Buckminster Fuller as the ultimate approach to the use of the geodesic dome in a residential role. Typical ?dome homes? employ an ...

From Michel Bauwens

17.) More Mobile

Over one day ago | Thu Nov 27 8:43:00 PST 2008

Jennifer Siegal has assembled an unusual crosscut of artists, designers, architects, and engineers, whose pioneering spirit is reminiscent of Buckminster Fuller and Archigram. The first three designers/artists I would classify in the ...

From re:place Magazine

18.) Review Questions History Part 4

Over one day ago | Sun Nov 9 6:26:00 PST 2008

Buckminster Fuller. b. Louis Sullivan. c. Marcel Lajos Breuer. d. Le Corbusier. 103. Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction. a. Carlos Rodriguez. b. Felix Outerino Candela. c. Luis Soria y Mata ...

From RSG

19.) (this article is a result of my study of fractals and their ...

Over one day ago | Thu Dec 11 9:54:00 PST 2008

In other words, the apparent continuity of a surface disappears as we magnify into it (Buckminster Fuller claimed that a sphere was a series of finely broken lines from the construction of a polyhedron). And if we examine the surface of ...

From kjmaclean

20.) buckminster fuller geodesic buildings

Over one day ago | Thu Oct 2 7:03:00 PDT 2008

the reason this building is so great is because it does not conform to the standard idea of what a building should be, it breaks the rules. with its complex construction and mind boggling complexity it has to be one of the most ...

From Francis Williams

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