Buckminster Fuller

Also known as Bucky Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)

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Buckminster Fuller was an American inventor and thinker (1895–1983) who worked across architecture, design, and systems theory to develop practical solutions for human problems. His work matters because he pioneered innovative approaches to building and design—most famously the geodesic dome—while promoting ideas about using technology and resources more efficiently to benefit all of humanity.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1895 births, 1983 deaths and 20th-century American architects.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1895
Died: 1983
Works: 101

Top works

Naga
Dymaxion comprehensive system
Fluid geography / by R. Buckminster Fuller
Tetrascroll
American Earth

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Film & TV

Acting · Milton, Massachusetts, USA

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

Known for

2012: Time for Change — Self (archive footage)2010
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? — Self (Archival)2010
Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard — Self (archive footage)2006
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud — Self1996
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream — Self1981
Dolphin — Self1979
The World of Buckminster Fuller — Self (as R. Buckminster Fuller)1974
Isamu Noguchi — Self1972
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family — Self1971
Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller — Himself (voice)1970

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1895
Active to: 1983

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 164
Total plays: 2,942

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Likelihood Ratio Statistics for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root
· 1981 · cited 8,694x
Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root
· 1979 · cited 6,475x
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,093x
Review of Particle Physics
· 2018 · cited 5,702x
Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series With a Unit Root
· 1979 · cited 5,406x

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Quotes

“All sports are time control demonstrations...”
“Life is the spirit incarnate in time.”
“Don't fight forces, use them.”
“There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.”
“Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. Industry paces economics. It changes the tools, a great ecological change. And in that manner we come finally to everyday life. The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.”
“Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Buckminster Fuller
date of birth: 1895-07-12
date of death: 1983-07-01
birth name: Richard Buckminster Fuller
Commons Creator page: Buckminster Fuller
name in native language: Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr.
start of work period: 1915-01-01
end of work period: 1974-01-01
pseudonym: Bucky Fuller

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983.

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