“Hailed as "one of the greatest minds of our times," R. Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades, he developed pioneering solutions that reflected his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improves human lives.” This is an excerpt from the Buckminster Fuller Institute website, which Fuller has proven to the world many times. Buckminster Fuller was a neo-futuristic architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor who dedicated his life to designing and inventing structures and such to try and better the world. But let me tell you a bit more about his life.
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. He spent much of his teen years on Bear Island, Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. He was always having trouble with Geometry and being able to imagine that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented a mathematical point, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow at the end was meant to stretch off to infinity. This was one of the things that helped him with many abstract inventions. He was always crafting things out of materials he found in the woods as well.…show more content… Cost effective, easy to create, and without the need for any other support than the dome itself, maximizing the space inside for other uses. The idea is that triangle (Others can be used as well) shapes, fitted together correctly, can support much more weight than the designs otherwise used through its ability to equally distribute stress and weight. in 1947 the first large model that Fuller displayed was made out thin aluminium tubing, and was about 14 feet in diameter, yet capable of carrying several college students without any damage to the structure or
