Dinner and a show in Portland's Pearl District Nov 20, 2008
For people-watching, sip wine in the loft overlooking the lobby, then settle in for one-man play "R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe.". If you go. (CNN -- Travel)
Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy Nov 17, 2008
In the United States, Richard Buckminster Fuller invented the geodesic dome to provide emergency housing for demobilized troops and their families. Those domes have since provided shelter for hundreds of thousands of people, many in desperate circumstances. (International Herald Tribune)
Roy Blount Jr's 'Alphabet Juice' Nov 14, 2008
Who thought to bust Buckminster Fuller for writing, "I seem to be a verb". Because "verb" is a noun, Blount points out, Fuller was really saying, "I seem to be a noun," when he made his famous declaration. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Future planes, cars may be made of `buckypaper' Oct 19, 2008
To Kroto, it also looked like the geodesic domes promoted by Buckminster Fuller, an architect, inventor and futurist. That inspired Kroto to name the new molecule buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyballs" for short. (Yahoo News)
* Producing reality Sep 17, 2008
If one were to look for precedents as to the way Olafur works, says Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Serpentine Gallery in London, where the artist created a pavilion last summer, it would have to be Buckminster Fuller, the artist-as-inventor. He has that kind of enquiring approach where the art emerges out of collective studio operation that is essentially a laboratory of ideas. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Artscience Problem Solvers Take On ... Aug 24, 2008
The work of Don Ingber, who adapted the "tensegrity structure" discovered by architect Buckminster Fuller and sculptor Kenneth Snelson to cell biochemistry. Ingber's work bolstered the theory that scientific chemistry and mechanics influence each other, and has had implications for cancer research. (Suite101.com)
Home Thoughts Aug 15, 2008
It was an easily reproduced slab-and-column structural framework, just the thing to support a resolutely modern "machine for living." In the 1920s, the intellectual pleni potentiary Buckminster Fuller devised the steel-and-aluminum Dymaxion House, a six-sided dwelling suspended by cables from a central steel post. And after World War II, the French designer Jean Prouv came up with the Maison Tropicale, a metal-walled house attractive enough in its retro-modern way that one sold at auction last... (Time.com)
Buckminster Fuller: The Big Thinker Jul 5, 2008
Courtesy Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller Article Tools. When I hauled my teenage self up to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, what I wanted most to see was the giant geodesic dome--actually more like a huge, transparent sphere--that Buckminster Fuller, the famous advance man for the future, had designed to serve as the U.S. pavilion ... That's more than enough of a legacy to fill "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," a show of drawings, models, videos and pipe dreams that runs... (Time.com)
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So "Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe," a timely new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is likely to stir waves of nostalgia ... Photos: Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum ... Librado Romero/The New York Times A timely new exhibition of works by Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum is likely to stir waves of nostalgia for those who miss the architecture of the Cold war. (International Herald Tribune)
Buckminster Fuller Jul 2, 2008
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OBITUARY: Tasha Tudor, illustrator of children's books, dies at 92 Jun 21, 2008
Her mother, Rosamond Tudor, was a portrait painter, and her father, William Starling Burgess, a yacht and airplane designer who collaborated with Buckminster Fuller. In an autobiography she wrote in 1951, Tudor said she did not start school until she was 9, although other biographies say she began as early as 7. (International Herald Tribune)
Probing the inner life and legend of R. Buckminster Fuller Jun 15, 2008
As the designer R. Buckminster Fuller liked to tell it, his powerful creative vision was born of a moment of deep despair at the age of 32 ... Those pioneering creations will go on display next week in "Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe," a sprawling show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that testifies to the wide-ranging intellectual curiosity of Fuller (1895-1983), who inspired several generations with his quixotic vision and his zeal for the liberating power of... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Mystery on Fifth Avenue Jun 14, 2008
But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets messages, games and treasures that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino. The apartment even comes with its own book, part of which is a fictional narrative that recalls "The Da Vinci Code" (without the funky religion or buckets of blood) and "From the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
That year he founded the Jargon Society Press as a means of keeping "afloat the Ark of Culture in these dark and tacky times!" More than 100 volumes and broadsides surfaced, among them seminal works of the avant-garde by Olson, Paul Metcalf, Lorine Niedecker, Mina Loy, Joel Oppenheimer, Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky, Michael McClure and Buckminster Fuller, each one impeccably crafted for Williams' own pleasure. Jargon's sole commercial success was White Trash Cooking, a collection of recipes and... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Rafting The Rio Grande May 2, 2008
Hancock, laconic and perpetually bemused, shared the small talk and also some not-so-small talk involving architect Buckminster Fuller, mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and the teachings of Buddhism. When we reached the top of a hike to high ground, he dramatically extended an arm to frame the desert panorama below. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Ralph Rapson, 93, modernist architect Apr 4, 2008
Among those who made their marks were Buckminster Fuller, Mies van der Rohe and Aalto. "The book shows how one can be talented, influential and happy, all the while remaining internationally obscure," a reporter wrote in The New York Times. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Magda Cordell McHale, 86, futurist thinker Mar 19, 2008
where John McHale worked with the futurist thinker Buckminster Fuller at the University of Illinois. In 1968, the couple moved to Binghamton, N.Y., where they created a Center for Integrative Studies at the State University of New York (now Binghamton University). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE COHASSET / There is just something about December Dec 14, 2007
Buckminster Fuller said, When I m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
* Wherefore art thou? Out of this world Sep 27, 2007
The architect Buckminster Fuller, one of the space age's most ardent proselytizers, put it much more coherently in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: "We are all astronauts.". From left: The Pompidou Center in Paris; china by the designer Raymond Loewy; John Lautner's 1960 Chemosphere house. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The post-Sputnik years: How outer space captivated a generation Sep 26, 2007
The architect Buckminster Fuller, one of the space age's most ardent proselytizers, put it much more coherently in his book "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth": "We are all astronauts.". Deciding which cultural offerings from those post-Sputnik years were deep and lasting and which were probably not (space-age bachelor-pad music. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Here today, gone tomorrow Aug 16, 2007
But closest of all to making portable architecture a reality was the tirelessly inventive American designer Richard Buckminster Fuller ... Buckminster Fuller didn't try to put it into production until 1945 ... Like Buckminster Fuller, he adapted techniques from the aviation industry into his mass- produced portable dwelling; but, unlike Buckminster Fuller, he put wheels on his and called it the Airstream. (Guardian Unlimited)
Television icon succumbs to cancer Aug 14, 2007
Also thrown into the mix were guests such as burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, transsexual Christine Jorgensen and visionary architect Buckminster Fuller -- as well as a string of politicians and newsmakers that included Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and antiwar activist Abbie Hoffman. Griffin also traveled to do filmed interviews with such notables as philosopher Bertrand Russell in London, actor Sean Connery in Cannes, and French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot in... (Sun-Sentinel.com)
Challenges for Creative Minds Aug 9, 2007
The Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Brooklyn (N.Y.)-based organization named for the visionary American inventor, has issued. The BFI seeks an idea with "significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity." Ideally, write the organizers, the entries should demonstrate Fuller's "trimtab principle", which posits that "small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can... (BusinessWeek)
Vacuum Man Tackles Wet Hands Jun 25, 2007
He went to art school, where he discovered an affinity for product design and the iconoclastic ideas of futurist R. Buckminster Fuller. Then he attended engineering school, where he learned the disciplines an inventor needs to cross the bridge separating concept and finished product. (BusinessWeek)
A decade on ... the Dome works Jun 24, 2007
Its conceptual history goes back to the Fifties when a German architect called Frei Otto was working with the great Richard Buckminster Fuller at Washington University in St Louis. These were hero figures to Rogers's generation. (Guardian Unlimited)
Taking to the streets for art Apr 21, 2007
"Suspended Possibilites" was also inspired by American architect Buckminster Fuller, who built pioneering dome houses. Piziali is also a longtime admirer of Greg Brown, the quintessential Palo Alto public artist whose quirky wall paintings of people -- and aliens -- pepper the city. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Innovative Alzheimer's Research May Solve Critical Piece In Disease's Puzzle Feb 16, 2007
The experimental methodology for the Alzheimer's study was developed at UCSB 15 years ago, in studies involving "buckyballs." Buckyball is the nickname for the versatile carbon molecule known as C60, which scientists named "buckminsterfullerene" after American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who designed geodesic domes in a soccer-ball shape. "Our ion mobility and mass spectrometry methods provide a new way to attack the molecular basis of neurological diseases that has not been explored until... (Science Daily)
A beautiful mind Feb 11, 2007
Maybe if you read all the deep thinkers that his canvases identify as sources of inspiration -- William Blake, J.W. Goethe , Teilhard de Chardin , Carl Jung , the futurist Buckminster Fuller , the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, and dozens more -- and studied Laffoley's pictures for a few years, it would all make sense. But who has time for that. (Boston Globe)
Exclusive: Joseph Farah shares politicized test questions from daughter's college class Jan 31, 2007
QUESTION: The depletion of our natural resources was not a concern for early architects and designers such as Paolo Soleri, Victor Papanek and Buckminster Fuller. True. (WorldNetDaily)
Rebecca Mead tours “Home to the Future” Jan 15, 2007
The exhibit opens this Tuesday with a party featuring a performance by Tony Bennett not exactly a man of the future, or even to it, although, as Schlossberg points out, he s in the present, and the event is happening in five days, so that s the future, which is the kind of logic that s to be expected from someone whose college mentor was Buckminster Fuller. Many New Yorkers, of course, might think that, rather than working on the home of the future, Time Warner would do better to focus on... (New Yorker)
Noted civil engineer dies at age 87 UCB, Jan. 09 Jan 10, 2007
The list also included UC Berkeley professor emeritus T.Y. Lin, Thomas Edison, Henry J. Kaiser, Frank Lloyd Wright and R. Buckminster Fuller. Gerwick helped develop the use of prestressed concrete in bridge piers, foundation pilings and marine structures. (University of California Newswire, CA)
