His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image. If you have any mental image of Buckminster Fuller, you might picture him as a ...

"Sleep is just a bad habit." So declared Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion car, and the ...

If you’ve spent anytime inside, or even helped build, a geodesic dome, then you have encountered the legacy of architect, inventor, author, and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller. From the 1950s to the ...

Buckminster Fuller believed in solving problems by design. In fact, he believed that all the problems, large and small, facing Spaceship Earth—the term he coined for our planet—could be solved by ...

A soundtrack is an essential part of a movie, so it’s appropriate that the “live documentary” “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller” has a live soundtrack. When filmmaker Sam Green brings the show ...

CARBONDALE — A free, public presentation on the work and legacy of noted futurist, architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller by one of his former students is set for Sunday, April 7, at Southern ...

Carrie Heitman, Jamie Effros, and Elizabeth London in a scene from ‘God Is a Verb’ (all photos by Mitch Dean, courtesy Hook & Eye Theater) Elizabeth London, Hannah Hartmann, Sade Namei, Jamie Effros, ...

For decades, Buckminster Fuller maintained a reputation as a visionary innovator transforming our approach to everything from auto design to architecture to geometry. He was profiled in Time as early ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - A famous figure in southern Illinois history’s 130th birthday is coming up, and everyone’s invited to a party in his honor. From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, the public is ...

A man brimming with big ideas, Buckminster Fuller saw the grand flow of history and sought to direct it into more constructive channels. Among the crises he identified before they entered the popular ...

Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography assesses the complicated legacy of an architect better known for his image than his work. Buckminster Fuller, 1978. (Photo by Frank Lennon/Toronto Star via Getty Images ...

Earlier this year, I searched for “Buckminster Fuller” on Twitter. During his lifetime, Fuller—the architectural designer, futurist, and inventor best known for the geodesic dome—was one of the most ...