Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), American architect and engineer, was in a broad sense a product designer who understood architecture as well as the engineering sciences in relation to mass production and in association with the idea of total...

Born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, Richard Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller was to become one of the most creative thinkers of the twentieth century. Fuller was schooled at the Milton Academy and in 1913 entered Harvard University. After being...

Best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, engineer, architect, inventor, and philosopher Buckminster Fuller epitomized old-fashioned American know-how, and was an apostle of the democratizing possibilities of technology. Convinced his inventions...

A major contributor to scientific engineering and environmental studies, Richard Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller (1895–1983) was born on July 12 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died July 1 in Los Angeles, California. His epitaph,...

1895-1983 American Architect and Inventor and Mathematician R. Buckminster Fuller was among the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. He is best remembered for developing the geodesic dome, the only practical type of building that has no...

Richard Buckminster Fuller, Jr., best known as the architect of Houston's Astrodome and other geodesic structures, enjoyed a long and varied career as a structural engineer and unconventional humanistic thinker. A colorful and gregarious...

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)[1] was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was the second President of Mensa.[2] Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question...

BOOK Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility By Michael John Gorman. Skira, 2005. 208pp. £34 It is hard to tell Buckminster Fuller's story without repeating his version of events. As those who heard his interminable lectures will recall, he was an assiduous self-promoter. It...

In a world where high-tech has become mainstream, the latest new invention is likely to end up on our desks before we can say www.whatsnext.com. With each new start-up company in the valleys Sorrento and Silicon, the visionaries of today may be too...

Today is Tuesday, June 5, the 156th day of 2007. There are 209 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan...

Whose idea was it to host concurrent retrospectives of Romare Bearden and Isamu Noguchi at the Whitney Museum of American Art? It was a brilliant stroke, really. Noguchi's streamlined, abstract sculptures distill experience by expunging it of clutter; Bearden's collaged portrayals of farmers, jazz musicians...