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Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 July 1895
- Died
- 1 July 1983
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Milton
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Richard, Buckminster
- Family name
- Fuller
- Mother
- Caroline Wolcott Andrews
- Spouse
- Anne Hewlett
- Sibling
- Caroline Leslie Fuller
- Movement
- high-tech architecture
- Occupation
- architect, inventor, writer, diarist, university teacher, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, philosopher, designer, mathematician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, Humanist of the Year, Frank P. Brown Medal, AIA Gold Medal, Royal Gold Medal, St. Louis Literary Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, John Scott Award, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Toynbee Prize
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives, Museum of Modern Art, College for Creative Studies Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb
- different from
- Buckminster Fuller
- educated at
- Harvard University, Bates College, Milton Academy, Harvard College
- employer
- Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Black Mountain College
- end of work period
- 1974
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Print Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art
- influenced by
- Alfred Korzybski, Bertrand Russell, Mary Kenneth Keller
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Architects
- name in native language
- Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr.
- notable work
- Montreal Biosphère, Nine Chains to the Moon, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Critical Path, Dymaxion house, Science World, R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, Spoletosfera, Dymaxion map, Dymaxion
- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Bucky Fuller
- related category
- Category:Books by Buckminster Fuller
- residence
- Maine
- start of work period
- 1915
- student
- Tom Myers
- topic has template
- Template:Buckminster Fuller
- topic's main category
- Category:Buckminster Fuller
- work location
- Los Angeles
- writing language
- English
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