Architect Buckminster Fuller’s wondrous vision continues to tickle our imagination, but few of his radical theories (some were far fetched, like the notion that civilization began in Southeast Asia) ...

A book excerpt from You Belong to the Universe by Jonathon Keats. In 1914, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier attempted to design a house like a car chassis. Comprising horizontal slabs separated by ...

“Making the world’s available resources serve one hundred percent of an exploding population can only be accomplished by a boldly accelerated design revolution.” There are few men who can justly claim ...

Some jigsaw puzzle--3,600 pieces with a combined weight of three tons and no final picture. Together they make up R. (Richard) Buckminster Fuller’s landmark Dymaxion House, a round house made of ...

Ever the anomaly in the world of architecture—from his early days peddling standardized concrete masonry units to his later forays into geodesic domes—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) remains an enigma, ...

Visitors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., can explore the innovative, Wichita-built Dymaxion House by looking through its acrylic windows and touring the interior. Gary Malerba/The Henry ...

Born of despair and inspiration in Chicago in 1927, the Dymaxion House was the world’s introduction to R. Buckminster Fuller, an unemployed young father who soon became known as a designer, ...

The Henry Ford Museum is a treasury of Americana from plows to presidential limousines, but its latest acquisition looks as if it flew in from outer space. A sleek silver dome, it is the only example ...

Decades before the phrase “tiny house” was something you uttered proudly, visionary inventor R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (1895-1983) imagined mass-produced, inexpensive, portable and environmentally ...

Did you know that Bridgeport was once the home of “the car of the future?” It was the Tesla of its era, but only three were ever built. Jim Cameron This mystery vehicle? The Dymaxion Car. The designer ...

(See Cover) He has been called “the first poet of technology,” “the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building,” “an anticipator of the world to come—which is different ...