a+u 635 The Seven Principles of R. Buckminster Fuller

Description

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have followed. This issue of the magazine zooms in on Fuller’s seven principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Besides highlighting examples of various designs and projects, it also reprints Fuller’s article “Experiment in Individual Initiative”.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Bucky as System / Daichi Shigemoto
• Essay: Experiment in Individual Initiative / R. Buckminster Fuller
• 4D
  4D Time Lock
  4D Lightful Tower / Fuller 4D Tower Garage
  United States Patent Application: 4D House
• Dymaxion
  Dymaxion House
  United States Patent 2220482: Prefabricated Bathroom
  Dymaxion Bathroom
  United States Patent 2343764 / United States Patent 2351419: Building Construction
  Dymaxion Deployment Unit
  Wichita House
  United States Patent 2101057: Motor Vehicle
  Dymaxion Car
• Synergetics
  United States Patent 2986241: Synergetic Building Construction
  Airplane Hanger
  Proposal for United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67
• Geodesic
  United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67
  United States Patent 2682235: Building Construction
  Ford Rotunda 88
  United States Patent 2905113: Self-Strutted Geodesic Plydome
  United States Patent 3197927: Geodesic Structures
  Des Moines Plydome / Cornell Pinecone Plydome
  Fly’s Eye Dome
  United States Patent 2914074: Geodesic Tent
  Kaiser Dome
  United States Patent 3203144: Laminar Geodesic Dome
  Spaceship Earth, Epcot
  Geodesic Dome for the US Marine Corp
  Drop City
  R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home
• Tensegrity
  United States Patent 3063521: Tensile-Integrity Structures
  United States Patent 3866366: Non-Symmetrical Tension-Integrity Structures
  Geodesic Tensegrity Dome / Tensegrity Sphere
  Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller
• Design Science
  Skyrise for Harlem/ Dome Over Manhattan/
  Tetrahedron City/ Triton City/ Cloud Nine
• Spaceship Earth
  United States Patent 2393676: Cartography
  Dymaxion Airocean World
  World Game
  Geoscope
• Dymaxion Chronofile