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Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller

Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (1895 - 1983) was active/lived in New York, California, Massachusetts.  Buckminster Fuller is known for Geodome and other invention drawings, writing.

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Living a 20th-century life "dedicated to shaking up the planet", Buckminster Fuller had a creative mind, with many ideas so far-reaching that they are "only now hitting the mainstream, some 25 years after his death." Included among those credits is his anticipation of the Internet, environmental problems and cyber culture.  And his concepts, expressed through his writings, lectures and drawingts, had an influence on modernist, abstract art. 

Fuller's name is especially associated with the geodome as he was the first person to design a domed shaped structures. In fact, the dome, Spaceship Earth, at Epcot Center at Disney World, is based on Fuller's design.  He was also hired to design the dome-shaped U.S. pavilion for the 1967 Montreal Expo, which remains a museum. It has a diameter of 228 feet, a height of 183 feet, and a double layer of skin.  It also had a computerized system to control an array of moveable sunshades to adjust the interio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7087 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller

   Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller  Born:  1895 - Milton, Massachusetts
Died:   1983 - Los Angeles, California
Known for:  Geodome and other invention drawings, writing
Name variants:  R (Richard) Buckminster Fuller

Living a 20th-century life "dedicated to shaking up the planet", Buckminster Fuller had a creative mind, with many ideas so far-reaching that they are "only now hitting the mainstream, some 25 years after his death." Included among those credits is his anticipation of the Internet, environmental problems and cyber culture.  And his concepts, expressed through his writings, lectures and drawingts, had an influence on modernist, abstract art. 

Fuller's name is especially associated with the geodome as he was the first person to design a domed shaped structures. In fact, the dome, Spaceship Earth, at Epcot Center at Disney World, is based on Fuller's design.  He was also hired to design the dome-shaped U.S.  ...  Displaying 750 of 7087 characters.

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