#buckminster fuller

[nobrashfestivity]

R. Buckminster Fuller A Dymaxion Home, project Elevation, axonometric, and plan Architectural Drawing Drawing date: c. 1930 Project date: c. 1930

(model made later) Unbuilt Fuller's 1927-29 Dymaxion House project inspired his Wichita House, Wichita, Kansas, of 1945-46 (212.1978 and 213.1978). The Wichita House was the only Dymaxion-type house built. "R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was inspired by a desire to create widely available low cost housing. Fuller believed that by adopting the efficient and cost-effective assembly-line production methods used for the automobile he could produce a home at the same price as a car. The unusual hexagonal-shaped house was clad with double-panel vacuum-glazed walls and was fully air-conditioned. Its central aluminum core housed all mechanical equipment and provided the support structure for the roof and floor. Fuller's goal, 'maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input,' was never realized, but his concept introduced a radical new way of living to the general public. Despite numerous early orders, only one modified postwar version of the house was ever built." - Bevin Cline and Tina di Carlo in "The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection" (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002).

#buckminster fuller #R. Buckminster Fuller #architecture #drawing

[polychroniadis]

Buckminster Fuller’s Montreal geodesic dome on fire, 1976.

#art #Architecture #geodesic #montreal #buckminster fuller #fire

[humanoidhistory]

Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller in Rose Hill, Kansas, 1948.

#dymaxion #dymaxion house #buckminster fuller #architecture #design #future #futuristic #retrofuture #kansas #wichita #rose hill #1940s

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Dymaxion #1938 #Buckminster Fuller #retrofuturism #cars

[knotty-et-al]

You can insert an icosahedron inside an octahedron.

If the edge length of the octahedron ist 1 + Phi (1.618), the egde length of the icosahedron is SQRT(2).

A friend showed me this picture by Casey house:

[Source: Caseys website ]

And I had to draw it in isometric projection.

Very neat.

One could also make that even further and put an octahedron into the icosahedron and so on...

#buckminster fuller #bucky #polyhedra #buckys modules #geometry #shapes #octahedron #icosahedron #isometric #isometric projection

[darquitectura]

Geodesic Dome, Buckminster Fuller, Expo 67 Montreal.

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[ofhouses]

1007. Buckminster Fuller /// R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home /// Carbondale, Illinois, USA /// 1960

OfHouses presents: The Show Must Go On, part III.   (Photos: © Phillip Harrington. Source: The Fuller Dome Home Preservation Project.)

#ShowMustGoOn3 #Buckminster Fuller #USA #60s #OfHouses #oldforgottenhouses #www.ofhouses.com #thecollectionofhouses

[sivavakkiyar]

Buckminster Fuller, from How Little I Know

#buckminster fuller #poetry #he called it ‘ventilated prose’

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Solar System Embroidery Ophelie Trichereau on Etsy

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Energy has been a great preoccupation of Man and synergy has been overlooked. Synergy is to energy as integration is to differentiation. Energy is differentiating out and synergy is integrating.

- Buckminster Fuller (via sumballein) Negentropy is the word used for reverse entropy. Energy in this quote is = to entropy. Synergy here is = to Negetropy

[alive on all channels]

#solar system embroidery #Ophelie Trichereau #Etsy #Buckminster Fuller #quotes #energy #synergy #entropy #negentropy #differentiation

[garadinervi]

R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetic Building Construction – Octetruss from the portfolio Buckminster Fuller: Inventions. Twelve Around One, (screenprinted clear film, duotone screenprint on Lenox 100% rag paper, blue backing leaf of Curtis 100% rag paper), Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1981, Edition of 60 [Alternate Projects, Newport, KY]

#art #architecture #geometry #pattern #structure #mixed media #buckminster fuller #richard buckminster fuller #carl solway gallery #1980s

[spaceintruderdetector]

whenever i draw a circle, i immediately want to step out of it.

I Seem To Be A Verb - Buckminster Fuller : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

#buckminster fuller #philosophy

[aranazo]

Ideas and Integrities by Buckminster Fuller.

#books #covers #architecture #geodesic dome #buckminster fuller #ideas and integrities #1979 #70s

[knotty-et-al]

A visual study of the Icosahedron inside an Octahedron - and the remaining tetrahedral modules

The tetrahedral modules:

Buckminster Fuller came up with these modules and called them "S modules" or "S quanta modules".

Here is a helpful summary:

[Source (PDF) | A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller, 1987]

#polyhedra #polyhedron #buckminster fuller #s-modules #modules #geometry #icosahedron #octahedron #platonic solids #tetrahedron #irregular tetrahedron #math art #hexagon #hexagrid #hexagon grid #mathy art #isometric #isometric projection #isometry

[joeinct]

Buckminster Fuller ferries houseguests to Bear Island, which his grandmother bought in 1904 and remained his family seat, Penobscot Bay, Maine, Photo by John Loengard, 1970

#John Loengard #buckminster fuller

[iindex]

Buckminster Fuller's definition of synergy was written for a workshop that he delivered with Ruth Asawa at Marshall Elementary School, San Francisco, in 1974.

Fuller was passionate about teaching the beauty of the geometry found in nature. He played a role in the environmental movement, arguing that we live together on ‘spaceship earth’, travelling through the universe. In a workbook for children he explained, "People sometimes say, 'I wonder what it's like to be on a spaceship' ... and I say, "Well, look around you ... you are on one. How does it feel? You are on spaceship Earth."

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[sivavakkiyar]

Buckminster Fuller, “How Little I Know”

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