Buckminster Fuller

Born

July 12, 1895

Died

July 1, 1983 (aged 87)

Known as

architect, inventor, writer, diarist, university teacher, scientist

Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion", "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".

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