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Essay on Richard Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller, more popularly known as "Bucky" Fuller, is described in Current Biography, 1960, as A mathematical genius, an engineer of rare and extraordinary foresight and a philosopher 'whose mind bestrides the most colossal problems of life and living. To most readers the inventory of the Dymaxion house, the Bymaxion map, and the geodesic dome are so well-known as to need little introduction. Some details are about him are as follows
Place of Birth: Milton, Massachusetts
Education: Expelled from Harvard University during freshman year
Awards: 44 honorary doctoral degrees, Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects and dozens of other honors.
Selected Works:
1932: The portable Dymaxion house manufactured
1934: The Dymaxion car
1938: Nine Chains to the Moon
1949: Developed the Geodesic Dome
1967: US Pavilion at Expo '67, Montreal, Canada
1969: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
1970: Approaching the Benign Environment
Standing only 5'2" tall, Buckminster Fuller loomed over the twentieth century. Admirers affectionately call him Bucky, but the name he gave himself was Guinea Pig B. His life, he said, was an experiment.
When he was 32, Buckminster Fuller's life seemed hopeless. He was bankrupt and without a job. He was grief stricken over the death of his first child and he had a wife and a newborn to support. Drinking heavily, he contemplated suicide. Instead, he decided decided that his life was not his to throw away: It belonged to the universe. He embarked on “an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.”
To this end, Buckminster Fuller spent the next half century searching for "ways of doing more with less" so that all people could be fed and sheltered. Although he never obtained a degree in architecture, he was an architect and engineer who designed revolutionary structures....
