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Buckminster Fuller

1895 - 1983

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Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) 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" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Buckminster Fuller is the 14th most popular architect (up from 63rd in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from United States (up from 723rd in 2019) and the most popular American Architect.

Buckminster fuller is most famous for his geodesic dome.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Buckminster Fuller ranks 14 out of 518Before him are Alvar Aalto, Donato Bramante, Imhotep, Andrea Palladio, Albert Speer, and Leon Battista Alberti. After him are Louis Sullivan, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Zaha Hadid, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Buckminster Fuller ranks 7Before him are George VI, Zog I of Albania, Amin al-Husseini, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, and Juan Perón. After him are Carl Orff, Buster Keaton, Anna Freud, Ernst Jünger, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Among people deceased in 1983, Buckminster Fuller ranks 4Before him are Joan Miró, Louis de Funès, and Garrincha. After him are Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Leopold III of Belgium, Hergé, Albert Claude, Felix Bloch, Idris of Libya, and Jon Brower Minnoch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 155 out of 20,380Before him are Ted Bundy (1946), Harvey Weinstein (1952), Will Smith (1968), Daniel D. Tompkins (1774), John Dewey (1859), and William R. King (1786). After him are Louis Sullivan (1856), William Faulkner (1897), James Dean (1931), Steven Seagal (1952), Kirk Douglas (1916), and Tina Turner (1939).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 1After him are Louis Sullivan (1856), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Richard Meier (1934), Philip Johnson (1906), Robert Venturi (1925), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Adrian Smith (1944).