If you have any mental image of Buckminster Fuller, you might picture him as a white-haired, bespectacled old man, standing in front of a chalkboard, holding up a model of a geodesic dome: a visionary ...

This photograph by Masato Nakagawa shows Fuller and students demonstrating the strength of the "Bucky Ball" at Black Mountain ...

The massive blizzard that hammered Long Island last week has taken down an important sculpture. Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. As autumn light settled over ...

Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring ...

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The Buckminster Fuller Institute has announced six finalists for the 2016 Fuller Challenge, a competition now in its ninth cycle. The Fuller Challenge called for submissions from all fields that ...

I remember vividly my first meeting with Buckminster Fuller—or Bucky as he was more commonly known. It was in 1971 and he had been asked to design a theater beneath the quadrangle of St Peter’s ...

In the summer of 1969, as humanity left its first footprints on the Moon, architect, futurist and inventor Buckminster Fuller was thinking about the Earth. Gathering a team of students in New York, he ...

Footage from the fair projected on a huge screen in the performance space, thousands of people walking up through the structure, marveling at gargantuan paintings by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and ...

Even apostles of the future end up as historical figures. Richard Buckminster Fuller was born July 12, 1895. Bucky, as he was known to his friends and fans, lived until 1983 and remains most famous ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. Today we know R. Buckminster Fuller primarily through his oeuvre of iconic objects and ideas created over the arc of a nearly 90-year life. Born ...