Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes were years in the making. An excerpt from "Inventor of the Future." Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known ...

FOR years R. (for Richard) Buckminster Fuller has been the gadfly, delight and despair of the technological world. Beginning with a design for a ten-story apartment house that he hoped would be ...

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 ...

In its program for “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe,” Arena Stage includes a list of 43 things Fuller’s son-in-law compiled to describe his father in-law. Some of them ...

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 ...

Although not a household name, Tommy Zung, founder and president of New York–based Studio Zung, wears more than one hat. Yes, he is an academically trained and licensed architect, but he’s also the ...

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 ...

Only three of these back-to-front Dymaxions were ever built, but as there’s only one remaining it was up to British architect Norman Foster (the man behind some of the most recognizable buildings in ...

Starting With the Universe” (opening June 26 at the Whitney) because Fuller’s ideas just kept turning up in her research for ...

CARBONDALE -- R. Buckminster Fuller, the late SIU designer, educator, inventor and visionary, will be the focus of a performance and special exhibit coming to the university this fall. D.W. Jacobs, ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The city of Carbondale has shared an update on its remodel of the Bucky Fuller Dome Home and new Museum. The city announced the museum's foundation and steel beams are in place in ...