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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fuller became famous for his huge geodesic domes, which can be seen as part of military radar stations, city halls, and exhibition attractions.
		Buckminster Fuller was one of the first to propagate a systemic worldview (see 'Operating manual for Spaceship Earth', 'Synergetics') and explored principles of energy and material efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design.
		Fuller was born on July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/bu/Buckminster_Fuller (718 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of Fuller's Dymaxion Houses is on display as a permanent exhibit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.
		Fuller was one of the first to propagate a systemic worldview (see 'Operating manual for Spaceship Earth', 'Synergetics') and explored principles of energy and material efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design.
		Fuller was born on July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Buckminster_Fuller (6639 words)

	Richard Buckminster Fuller
		Fuller's ambition was to create a 'design science' that would be able to create the best solutions to problems with minimal consumption of energy and materials.
		Buckminster Fuller invented the Geodesic Dome in the late 1940s to demonstrate some ideas he had about housing and 'energetic-synergetic geometry' (two types of structures or geometry working together to create a new stronger structure), which he had developed during the Second World War.
		Fuller used new materials such as the ones used to make aeroplanes to build a new a type of building that no one had ever seen before.
	www.design-technology.org /page1.htm (951 words)

	Buckminster Fuller - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller strove to inspire humanity to take a comprehensive view of the finite world we live in and the infinite possibilities for an ever-increasing standard of living within it.
		Fuller was followed (historically) by other designers and architects (for example, Norman Foster — especially his "Armadillo" project — and Steve Baer) willing to explore the possibilities of new geometries in the design of buildings, not based on the conventional rectangles.
		Buckminster and John Denver were very close friends and the song "What One Man Can Do" on John's 1982 album "Seasons of the Heart" was written on the occasion of R. Buckminster's 85th birthday.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/R._Buckminster_Fuller (3508 words)

	Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", has undeniably been one of the key innovators in the 20th century.
		Fuller is the inventor of the Geodesic dome, and was a pioneer in utilizing basic geometical shapes in design.
		The Buckminster Fuller Institute located in Santa Barbara is a repository and resource concerning his work.
	www.worldtrans.org /whole/bucky.html (434 words)

	American Masters: Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
		In Buckminster Fuller's world, cars had three wheels, houses were to be delivered by blimps, and cities were to be built inside floating spheres.
		This first documentary on Fuller since his death in 1983 is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.
		Fuller next designed the Dymaxion Car, a sensation when it was demonstrated on city streets and at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/film.html (743 words)

	WNET: Who Was R. Buckminster Fuller?
		Buckminster Fuller had one of the most fascinating and original minds of his century.
		Like the transcendentalists, Fuller rejected the established religious and political notions of the past and adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on the essential unity of the natural world and the use of experiment and intuition as a means of understanding it.
		Fuller was an architect, though he never got a degree and in fact didn't even get a license until he was awarded one as an honor when he was in his late 60s.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/applewhite.html (601 words)

	BookRags: Richard Buckminster Fuller Biography
		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 environment.
		Buckminster Fuller was best known for his work on the Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Bathroom, and Dymaxion Car and as the inventor of the geodesic dome--as a means of attaining maximum space related to environment with minimal use of raw materials.
		Fuller's proposal for a hemispherical dome two miles in diameter to cover a portion of Manhattan Island, New York, to enclose a controlled environment was not acted on.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-buckminster-fuller/index.html (948 words)

	Coachbult.com - Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fuller suggests that the transport should be powered by means of jets (practical jets were not built for aircraft for another decade).
		Fuller responds: "the basic cost today is a hundred million dollars", after calculating the cost of retooling all component parts of the house.
		Fuller developed the 'Dymaxion' house between 1927 and 1946 which was transportable and self-contained, supported from a central 'mast'; an invention which caused the design theorist Reyner Banham to label Fuller 'the essential modernist'.
	www.coachbuilt.com /des/f/fuller/fuller.htm (6772 words)

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		Buckminster Fuller was probably one of the first futurists and global thinkers.
		The term dymaxion was used by inventor Buckminster Fuller for several of his projects, such as the Dymaxion Car and Dymaxion House.
		The Buckminster Fuller (1,0) frequency geodesic spheres are identical to Platonic bodies.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/buckminster-fuller--miscellaneous.html (161 words)

	Short Persons Support: Who's Who of Short People : Biography : Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fuller was descended from a long line of New England nonconformists.
		Fuller was twice expelled from Harvard University and never completed his formal education.
		Fuller became a research professor at Southern Illinois University in 1965 and by 1975 had been named professor emeritus.
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		He designed and built a safer, aerodynamic Dymaxion car, a more accurate Dymaxion Map, energy-efficient and low-cost Dymaxion houses (the term "Dymaxion" is contracted from DYnamic MAXimum tensION), radically strong and light tensegrity structures and much more.
		One of Fuller's Dymaxion Houses is on display as a permanent exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
		Fuller originated concepts explained in more accesable terms by K.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/buckminster_fuller.html (724 words)

	UNITED STATES COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP TO HONOR R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
		Fuller's papers are archived at Stanford University, where the first-day-of-issue ceremony will be held in the Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA, at 11 AM PT on Fuller's birthday, July 12.
		Based on Fuller's "synergetic geometry," his lifelong exploration of nature's principles of design, the geodesic dome was the result of his revolutionary discoveries about balancing compression and tension forces in building.
		Fuller applied for a patent for the geodesic dome in 1951 and received it in 1954.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_043.htm (1274 words)

	Buckminster Fuller- Renaissance Man \| Ann Arbor District Library
		July 12 is the 101st birthday of Buckminster Fuller, architect, inventor, engineer and philosopher.
		Fuller is best known for his invention of the geodesic dome, one of the most revolutionary structural inventions of the twentieth century.
		Fuller was a rare combination of the romantic and the scientist, one who believed in the possibility of the impossible and with the technical knowledge to bring dreams to fruition.
	www.aadl.org /node/2209 (208 words)

	BUCKMINSTER FULLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller Inventor / Philosopher Fuller was a 20th century inventor, mathematician and futurist.
		In one of Fuller's most accessible and widely read works, he addresses the social, political, cultural and economic issues of our critical path ahead.
		Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the century's most original thinkers.
	www.mamag.com.cn /;buckminster;fuller (168 words)

	disinformation \| buckminster fuller
		Fuller believed that any true social or political revolution must arise from and encompass design revolution insights, and not just be based upon shallow political rhetoric.
		R Buckminster Fuller Virtual University is conceived of as a university in the original sense, a collection of scholars.
		Buckminster Fuller's 'Critical Path' concept is applied to AIDS research and news with stunning results.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id169/pg1/index.html (1930 words)

	Richard Buckminster Fuller : : : : : El Poder de la Palabra : : : : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller influyó en varias generaciones de arquitectos e ingenieros con su optimista visión de un mundo transformado por una aplicación eficaz de la tecnología.
		Fuller construyó una cúpula que sirvió de pabellón en la Exposición Internacional de 1967 en Montreal.
		Escritor prolífico, Fuller creía que muchos de los problemas de la sociedad, incluyendo la pobreza y la marginación, se podrían resolver adaptando de forma atrevida las nuevas tecnologías.
	www.epdlp.com /arquitecto.php?id=2950 (236 words)

	Your Private Sky: R Buckminster Fuller: Discourse - R. Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller's talents bridged architecture, engineering, and industrial design, and his interest in prefabricated units, constructed from industrial materials, marked his designs as among the most inventive of the 20th century.
		The selection of texts provides access to Fuller's central concepts at the point they were first developed and presents them in their earliest valid formulation.
		The volume includes texts that have become classics in the philosophy of design: Fuller's first essay, "Lightful Houses," the lecture on his Dymaxion House, the first papers on synergetic geometry, and the tensegrity essay.
	www.bookfinder.us /review0/3907044940.html (389 words)

	Buckminster Fuller - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Deploring waste, Fuller explored and advocated a principle that he termed "ephemeralization" - which (according to Stewart Brand) Fuller defined as "doing more with less." He also introduced synergetics, which explores holistic engineering structures in nature (long before the term synergy became popular).
		A geodesic dome is a structure developed by Buckminster Fuller in the 1940s in line with his "synergetic" thinking.
		Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University from 1959-1970 in the School of Art and Design.
	education.music.us /B/Buckminster-Fuller.htm (1398 words)

	click4links.com: Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/F/Fuller,_Richard_Buckminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Buckminster Fuller Institute - Provides a biography and bibliography of Fuller and images and descriptions of his inventions.
		Buckminster Fuller FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions on Fuller, compiled by Christopher J. Fearnley from the discussions on the Bitnet mailing list Geodesic and its Usenet gateway.
		Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics - A technical treatise, reaching book length, about many of the ideas developed by Fuller.
	www.click4links.com /ODPcat.asp?ID=Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/F/Fuller,_Richard_Buckminster (356 words)

	Architecture at Loggia \| Architect R. Buckminster Fuller at a Glance
		The innovative ideas and concepts of R. Buckminster Fuller bridged several professions: engineer, architect, inventor, philosopher.
		Fuller's innovative 1927 Dymaxion House, was based on his concepts and theories of the ideal structure.
		A great introduction to Fuller's works, the book reveals the events that not only shaped his life, but his many inventions and architectural innovations as well.
	www.loggia.com /designarts/architecture/bio/fuller.html (234 words)

	The Buckminster Fuller Institute \|
		Symposium: "Geodesic Mathematics and Random Chaos: John Cage and Buckminster Fuller"
		Geodesic Mathematics and Random Chaos: John Cage and Buckminster Fuller is a one-day symposium and concert, Saturday, September 16th, 2006, celebrating the work and friendship of this acclaimed pair of twentieth century innovators.
		A special exhibition devoted to the long friendship and collaboration between visionary designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller and acclaimed sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi opens at The Noguchi Museum on May 19, 2006.
	www.bfi.org (1048 words)

	R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER - spaceship earth
		I was thinking about writing about Buckminster Fuller, because his life and work is truly amazing and inspiring to each and everyone.
		He was driven by the will to help humanity as a whole by applying science and intelligence to identify the most important problems of the decades yet to come.
		In our times, where intelligence, knowledge and thinking seem to be of little value for the majority of people, people like Buckminster Fuller and their influence are what is dearly missed.
	www.monochrom.at /cracked/comments/fuller.htm (373 words)

	The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ: Geodesic Domes
		Fuller invented the Geodesic Dome in the late 1940s to demonstrate some ideas about housing and ``energetic-synergetic geometry'' which he had developed during WWII.
		Since Fuller's dome is based on a sphere, cutting it anywhere but precisely along its equator means that the triangles at the bottom will tilt inward or outward.
		F is what Fuller called the Frequency of the geodesic sphere and, in the Class I case, corresponds to the number of grid intervals along any one of the 20 triangle edges.
	www.cjfearnley.com /fuller-faq-4.html (4401 words)

	Buckminster Fuller
		His views and beliefs were fairly close to what we'd term "Unitarian", but I'm not sure he used that term to describe himself.
		He came from a strong Transcendentalist background, and his (great?) aunt, Margaret Fuller was a well-known writer in this area.
		In my NPOV edit, I've deleted the statement, "Many of Fuller's designs met resistance from purely profit-driven corporations, whose destructive legacies he would spend the next fifty years fighting." I'm not opposed to saying he was opposed by corporations, but to make these kind of statements needs some stronger referential evidence (what corporation?
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