Organizations
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Black Mountain College
The legendary experimental college in North Carolina (1933–1957) where Fuller taught in the summers of 1948–49, built…
Buckminster Fuller Institute
The nonprofit that stewards Buckminster Fuller's legacy — preserving his archive-derived ideas, advancing his…
Cosanti Foundation
The educational nonprofit founded by architect Paolo Soleri to develop 'arcology' — architecture fused with ecology —…
Drop City
The 1960s artists' commune near Trinidad, Colorado, famous for building Fuller-inspired geodesic domes and 'zomes' from…
Fuller & Sadao
The architecture and design firm Buckminster Fuller founded with Shoji Sadao — the professional practice through which…
Geoship
A startup building precast bioceramic geodesic dome homes designed to last 500 years, extending Fuller's geodesic and…
Marta Herford
The German museum of contemporary art, architecture, and design (in Herford, in a Frank Gehry building) that produced…
Pacific Domes
The California dome-building group associated with Lloyd Kahn's Domebook 1 and 2 — the owner-builder dome manuals whose…
Southern Illinois University
The university at Carbondale that was Buckminster Fuller's principal academic home from 1959 into the 1970s, and whose…
Whole Earth / Portola Institute
The Portola Institute, the nonprofit that published Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog — the counterculture 'access to…
World Game Institute
The organization that institutionalized Buckminster Fuller's World Game — the participatory simulation for allocating…
Zomeworks
The New Mexico company founded by Steve Baer that commercialized passive-solar inventions and the 'zome' — a…