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May
24

2013-05-24

May
24

Dymaxion redux — Buckminster Fuller's legendary car is back in the news. - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

2013-05-24
Dymaxion redux — Buckminster Fuller's legendary car is back in the news.San Francisco Chronicle (blog)For fans of the late architect and inventor R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller, news that somebody found blueprints of Fuller's pre-war Dymaxion car in a Massachusetts attic was akin to hearing that Indiana Jones had found the Ark of the Covenant ...Dymaxion reduxSan Antonio Expressall 2 news articles »
May
12

The Prescient Vision of a Gentle Revolutionist - New York Times

2013-05-12
New York TimesThe Prescient Vision of a Gentle RevolutionistNew York TimesJudging by the outcome of the first course to be taught by Richard Buckminster Fuller (alias the “substitute”) at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, in summer 1948, your skepticism would have been justified. Fuller's efforts to encourage the ...
Apr
26

Great Architects Love a Good Nap - Slate Magazine

2013-04-26
Great Architects Love a Good NapSlate MagazinePerhaps the best napping story I ran across in my Daily Rituals research involved the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. In the early 1930s, Fuller decided that ingrained human sleep patterns were no longer practical for modern lifestyles.
May
12

Dymax Redux: Crowd-sourcing a New Map for the Buckminster Fuller Institute - Dexigner

2013-05-12
DexignerDymax Redux: Crowd-sourcing a New Map for the Buckminster Fuller InstituteDexignerIn celebration of the map's publication anniversary, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is calling on today's graphic designers, visual artists, and citizen cartographers to create a new and inspiring interpretation of the Dymaxion Map. BFI will ...
Apr
30

Happy 70th Birthday To Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map - Gizmodo Australia

2013-04-30
Happy 70th Birthday To Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion MapGizmodo AustraliaBuckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring applications? The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth ...and more »
May
23

Hot Home News: Saving Bucky Fuller's Dome Home at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com

2013-05-23
Buckminster Fuller's Illinois dome home, one of the most famous and historic home structures in the United States. Locals are raising funds to try to preserve the iconic building. (PRWeb May 23, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10760371.htm
Apr
29

How Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map Tessellated The World

2013-04-29
Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities . But one of the most useful and enduring applications? The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth into a long string of shapes, like a carefully peeled orange. 2013 marks the map’s 70th birthday, and to celebrate, the Brooklyn-based ...
May
02

Unplanned Obsolescence: 12 Things That Disappeared -- Next Month, The iPhone

2013-05-02
It was Buckminster Fuller who noted, “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” And so a bunch of innovators did, although it was not always planned that way.
May
20

Rare Dymaxion Car blueprints head to the auction block: Are you ready to build your own car of the future?!

2013-05-20
Buckminster Fuller had a gleaming, streamlined vision of the future -- a Dymaxion (his own word) future full of mass-produced pod houses, odd sleep schedules and geodesic domes. Lots and lots of geodesic domes.
May
13

IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 13

2013-05-13
Turmoil after the Pakistan election; countries lobby in Washington’s immigration debate; Chinese automakers put down roots in Detroit; renewed appreciation for Buckminster Fuller; Nadal and Williams triumph in Madrid.