page_title: Buckminster Fuller
hierarchical_section_title: Buckminster Fuller
caption_attribution_description: Terre des Hommes, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
context_page_description: Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
  Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", and "Synergetics".
  He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs. The best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
context_section_description: Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
  Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",  and "Synergetics".
  He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs. The best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
caption: The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller, 1967
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