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26 unusual facts about Buckminster Fuller


Boerdijk–Coxeter helix

Buckminster Fuller named it a tetrahelix and considered them with regular and irregular tetrahedral elements.

Brooklyn Dodgers proposed domed stadium

The Brooklyn Dodgers proposed domed stadium, designed by Buckminster Fuller, was to replace Ebbets Field for the Brooklyn Dodgers to allow them to stay in New York City.

Convex uniform honeycomb

The space-filling truss of packed octahedra and tetrahedra was apparently first discovered by Alexander Graham Bell and independently re-discovered by Buckminster Fuller (who called it the octet truss and patented it in the 1940s).

Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death

In this regard, and elsewhere in the book, Wilson embraces the ideas and philosophy of R. Buckminster Fuller.

Exiting Arm

He cited Buckminster Fuller, Dylan Thomas, The NeverEnding Story and Le Corbusier's modular man as ideas which contributed to the creation of the album.

Expo 67 pavilions

The exposition displayed many nations, corporations, industries, technologies, social themes, religions and designs, including the U.S. pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.

Gunnar Johansen

He organized conferences which included such notables as Edward Teller, inventor of the American hydrogen bomb, and Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

Inconstant Star

While trying to retrieve the Rover, Robert falls into a pit filled with buckyballs, named after R. Buckminster Fuller.

Institute of General Semantics

Every year since 1952, it has sponsored the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, with presenters from a broad range of disciplines, from science to medicine to entertainment, including names like actor Steve Allen, psychologist Albert Ellis, scientist and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller, linguist Allen Walker Read, and philosopher F. S. C. Northrop.

James Strutt

Inspired by American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller, James Strutt's designs fostered the modernist age in Canadian architecture.

His initial influences while at UoT were Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller; particularly Wright's material and environmental sensitivity, and Fuller's theories on weight efficiency ratios.

Joseph Clinton

Joseph D. Clinton had a long professional association with Buckminster Fuller.

Kinesis Myofascial Integration

KMI is an evolution of the fascial work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf, the movement insights of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the whole-systems geometry of Buckminster Fuller, and many other influences, directed by Thomas Myers.

Kiyoshi Kuromiya

He was the author (as Steve Kuromiya) of 1968 Collegiate Guide to Greater Philadelphia (1967) and, with R. Buckminster Fuller, of Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity (1992).

1978-83 Traveled worldwide with Buckminster Fuller, collaborated on his last 6 books, wrote last book posthumously in 1992 (Fuller died in 1983), Philadelphia, California

Kiyoshi is perhaps best known as the founder of the Critical Path Project, which brought the strategies and theories of his associate/mentor Buckminster Fuller to the struggle against AIDS.

Needle Tower

The structure style displayed is known as "tensegrity," a description given by Snelson's former professor Buckminster Fuller to the melding of tension and structural integrity.

Negentropy

Buckminster Fuller tried to popularize this usage, but negentropy remains common.

Paul Abacus

Paul Abacus’ thinking is heavily inspired by the work of polymath R. Buckminster Fuller.

R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home

Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971.

Rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

Although an uncommon drive layout, it has been used in the past, by Buckminster Fuller in his concept Dymaxion car, which was able to turn within its wheelbase due to rear-wheel steering.

Russell Township, Geauga County, Ohio

Russell is the home of ASM International, formerly known as the American Society for Metals, whose headquarters is marked by a gigantic geodesic dome, visited by Buckminster Fuller upon its completion.

Sam Green

Green’s most recent project is a live documentary entitled The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, about theorist and designer Buckminster Fuller, which features a live soundtrack by the band Yo La Tengo.

Solardome

The Buckminster Fuller organisation designed and develop giant "golf ball" radar domes.

Synthetic instrument

To use Buckminster Fuller's word, synthetic instruments are synergistic instruments.

Yrjö Sotamaa

During his time in Purdue he also collaborated with Buckminster Fuller.


Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

The museums permanent collection includes works by Karel Appel, Alexander Calder, Buckminster Fuller, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Surasi Kusolwong, Aiko Miyawaki, Yasumasa Morimura, Daisuke Nakayama, Maruyama Ōkyo, Jackson Pollock, George Rickey, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jason Teraoka, Zhou Tiehai, Lee U-Fan, Andy Warhol, and Miwa Yanagi.

Magda Cordell McHale

The living room on the ground floor was used for entertaining guests such as: Reyner Banham and other members of the ICA group, musicians, writers such as Eric Newby, dramatists such as Arnold Wesker, and international guests such as Buckminster Fuller, and Picasso's son, Paulo.

Spaceship Earth

The phrase was also popularized by Buckminster Fuller, who published a book in 1968 under the title of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.