Organizations
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Beech Aircraft
The Wichita aircraft manufacturer that partnered with Fuller on the Dymaxion dwelling — supplying wartime aluminium…
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…
Butler Manufacturing Company
The Kansas City metal-building maker whose corrugated-steel grain bin Fuller converted into the Dymaxion Deployment…
Cosanti Foundation
The educational nonprofit founded by architect Paolo Soleri to develop 'arcology' — architecture fused with ecology —…
Doubleday
Publisher of Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth (1972), the picture book that set Fuller's spoken words from…
Drop City
The 1960s artists' commune near Trinidad, Colorado, famous for building Fuller-inspired geodesic domes and 'zomes' from…
Dymaxion Corporation
The company Buckminster Fuller formed in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 4 March 1933 to build the Dymaxion car — three…
Ford Motor Company
The automaker whose 1953 Ford Rotunda dome was the first major geodesic commission after Fuller's Black Mountain…
Fuller & Sadao
The architecture and design firm Buckminster Fuller founded with Shoji Sadao — the professional practice through which…
Fuller Houses, Inc.
The corporate vehicle for the Wichita House — capitalised at 15,500 shares with Beech Aircraft holding 1,000 and Fuller…
Fuller Research Foundation
Buckminster Fuller's own office, which tracked and stockpiled press coverage of his work — its c. 1956 inventory of…
Garland Publishing
Publisher of The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (1985), the four-volume documentary set edited by James Ward that…
Geodesics, Inc.
The Buckminster Fuller company that handled government and military dome contracts — designer of the DEW Line radomes —…
Geoship
A startup building precast bioceramic geodesic dome homes designed to last 500 years, extending Fuller's geodesic and…
Kaiser Aluminum
The aluminium producer whose gold-anodized geodesic dome housed the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow — site…
Macmillan
Publisher of Athena V. Lord's young-readers Fuller biography Pilot for Spaceship Earth and of the 1963 second edition…
Marta Herford
The German museum of contemporary art, architecture, and design (in Herford, in a Frank Gehry building) that produced…
Museum of Modern Art
The New York museum with a recurring institutional relationship to Fuller — from the 1959 garden installation through…
NASA
The space agency that published the foundational mathematics of geodesic subdivision in 1971, later built spherical…
NC State School of Design
The Raleigh design school whose Student Publication ran from 1951 to 1977 and whose faculty made it a hub of…
Pacific Domes
The California dome-building group associated with Lloyd Kahn's Domebook 1 and 2 — the owner-builder dome manuals whose…
Princeton Architectural Press
Publisher of R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man, the volume built around the typescript of Fuller's 1966 inaugural…
Southern Illinois University
The university at Carbondale that was Buckminster Fuller's principal academic home from 1959 into the 1970s, and whose…
Synergetics, Inc.
The private-industry half of Buckminster Fuller's two-company dome practice, where designer Thomas C. Howard produced…
U.S. Marine Corps
The geodesic dome's first and most enthusiastic institutional adopter — thousands of helicopter-delivered domes for…
Whitney Museum of American Art
The New York museum that has held Fuller's Triton City models on loan and collects the work of two Black Mountain…
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…