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a+u 2023:08 Feature: The Seven Principles of R. Buckminster Fuller

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a+u’s August issue features Buckminster Fuller’s 7 principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Fuller, born in 1895, spent more than 5 decades of his career, from 1927 till his death in 1983, dedicated to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. With a far-reaching perspective on the world’s problems, he left behind numerous patents and inventions, having a massive influence over the generations that have followed. As detailed in an article by Fuller published in this issue, “We can invent objectively the instruments and tools that qualify us as local Universe problem-solvers.” His profound understanding of Universe led to his discovery of the principles, and thus to his inventions, including industrialized prefabricated houses, geodesic domes, and cartography. In this issue, Fuller’s patents and their real-world applications are selected and organized into chapters framed by these principles. Fuller, who held 24 patents in his lifetime, saw a patent as a catalog of Universe, a form of inheriting knowledge that can be accumulated and used by everyone. With the 7 principles as their foundation, the 13 patents and 30 works featured here reflect Fuller’s lifelong dedication and half-century of work on ambitious and diverse “experiments in individual initiative” – and the “polyhedral” image of Buckminster Fuller. (a+u)

 

Introduction: Bucky as System
Daichi Shigemoto

Essay: Experiment in Individual Initiative
R. Buckminster Fuller

4D
 4D Time Lock
 4D Lightful Tower / Fuller 4D Tower Garage
 United States Patent Application: 4D House

Dymaxion
 Dymaxion House
 United States Patent 2220482: Prefabricated Bathroom
 Dymaxion Bathroom
 United States Patent 2343764 / United States Patent 2351419:
 Building Construction
 Dymaxion Deployment Unit
 Wichita House
 United States Patent 2101057: Motor Vehicle
 Dymaxion Car

Synergetics
 United States Patent 2986241: Synergetic Building Construction
 Airplane Hanger
 Proposal for United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67

Geodesic
 United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67
 United States Patent 2682235: Building Construction
 Ford Rotunda 88
 United States Patent 2905113: Self-Strutted Geodesic Plydome
 United States Patent 3197927: Geodesic Structures
 Des Moines Plydome / Cornell Pinecone Plydome
 Fly’s Eye Dome
 United States Patent 2914074: Geodesic Tent
 Kaiser Dome
 United States Patent 3203144: Laminar Geodesic Dome
 Spaceship Earth, Epcot
 Geodesic Dome for the US Marine Corp
 Drop City
 R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home

Tensegrity
 United States Patent 3063521: Tensile-Integrity Structures
 United States Patent 3866366: Non-Symmetrical Tension-Integrity
 Structures
 Geodesic Tensegrity Dome / Tensegrity Sphere
 Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller

Design Science
 Skyrise for Harlem/ Dome Over Manhattan/
 Tetrahedron City/ Triton City/ Cloud Nine

Spaceship Earth
 United States Patent 2393676: Cartography
 Dymaxion Airocean World
 World Game
 Geoscope

Dymaxion Chronofile