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Adnan Morshed
Architectural historian and author of Impossible Heights (2015), which reads Buckminster Fuller's early work through an…
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955) whose relativity Fuller sought to popularize in Nine Chains to the Moon —…
Albert Gleaves
United States Navy admiral (1858–1937) who commanded the Cruiser and Transport Force during World War I; the officer to…
Alden Hatch
American biographer (1898–1975) who wrote the authorized life Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe (1974).
Alec Nevala-Lee
American author (b. 1980) who wrote Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (2022), a…
Alex Gerber
Author of Wholeness, which draws on Fuller to argue for holistic, integrative education in a fragmented world.
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born American inventor (1847–1922), best known for the telephone, whose tetrahedral kites and space-frame…
Alexandra Fuller
Buckminster Fuller's first daughter (1918–1922), who died in early childhood; the loss is repeatedly cited in the…
Alfred Korzybski
Polish-American scholar (1879–1950) who founded general semantics — 'the map is not the territory' — an epistemology of…
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947) whose process philosophy — reality as events and organism rather than…
Alicia Boole Stott
British mathematician (1860–1940) who intuited four-dimensional geometry from childhood, coined the term 'polytope',…
Alison Smithson
British architect and co-founder of New Brutalism who co-contributed 'Building toward the community structure' with…
Allegra Fuller Snyder
Buckminster Fuller's daughter (1927–2024), a dance ethnologist and UCLA professor who became a principal steward of her…
Amei Wallach
American art critic and writer who authored the introduction to R. Buckminster Fuller's Tetrascroll, recounting the…
Amory Lovins
American physicist and energy analyst (b. 1947), advocate of 'soft energy paths' and efficiency-first design whose…
Amy C. Edmondson
Author of A Fuller Explanation (1987), the clearest book-length introduction to Fuller's synergetic geometry, written…
Andy Warhol
American Pop artist (1928–1987) whose silvered Factory aesthetic makes an art-world contemporary to Fuller — notably as…
Anne Griswold Tyng
American architect (1920–2011), a longtime collaborator of Louis Kahn and a pioneer of morphology and triangulated…
Anne Hewlett Fuller
Buckminster Fuller's wife (1896–1983), daughter of architect James Monroe Hewlett — his lifelong partner through 66…
Anni Albers
German-American textile artist (1899–1994), the leading modern weaver, who taught with Josef Albers at Black Mountain…
Antoine Picon
French-American architecture and engineering historian at Harvard GSD who contributed a catalogue essay situating…
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Nzema (Ghanaian) philosopher (c. 1703–c. 1759) who became a professor at Halle and Jena, writing on the philosophy of…
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and inventor (c. 287–212 BCE) whose semiregular 'Archimedean' solids — above all the cuboctahedron…
Arthur L. Loeb
Dutch-American crystallographer and design scientist (1923–2002) whose 'Contribution to Synergetics' appears in…
Athena V. Lord
American author of Pilot for Spaceship Earth (1978), a narrative biography of Fuller written for young readers that…
Barry M. Katz
Design and innovation historian at California College of the Arts who contributed the essay on Fuller's pivotal year…
Benjamin Bloom
American educational psychologist (1913–1999), author of 'Stability and Change in Human Characteristics' and originator…
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, and public intellectual (1872–1970) whom the corpus pairs directly with Fuller on the…
Boris Artzybasheff
Russian-American illustrator (1899–1965) who painted Buckminster Fuller's portrait for the January 10, 1964 cover of…
Brian Danitz
Co-editor of Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier, a lavishly illustrated collection of interviews with leading…
Calvin Tomkins
American writer and art critic (b. 1925), a longtime New Yorker staff writer whose 1966 profile 'In the Outlaw Area'…
Cedric Price
Visionary British architect and theorist (1934–2003), known for the unbuilt Fun Palace and Potteries Thinkbelt, who…
Charles Darwin
English naturalist (1809–1882) whose theory of evolution by natural selection Fuller treated as a predecessor idea to…
Charles Howard Hinton
British mathematician and writer (1853–1907) who coined 'tesseract' and popularized the fourth dimension through his…
Chris Zelov
American filmmaker and publisher, director of the documentary Ecological Design: Inventing the Future and co-author of…
Christopher Morley
American writer, journalist, and broadcaster (1890–1957) and a close friend of Buckminster Fuller, whose friendship is…
CJ Fearnley
Synergetics researcher, founder of the Synergetics Collaborative, and author of the Fuller FAQ — the most widely…
Clark Richert
American artist (1941–2021) known for geometric paintings and as a founder of Drop City, the countercultural commune…
Claude Lichtenstein
Swiss design historian and curator, co-editor of the two-volume Your Private Sky, the major exhibition-and-anthology…
Cole Gerst
Designer, illustrator, and author of the illustrated volume 'Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry' (Overcup Press,…
Constance Abernathy
American architect and jeweler (1931–1994) and an associate of Buckminster Fuller.
Cyril Stanley Smith
British-American metallurgist and historian of materials who contributed 'Structure, substructure, superstructure' to…
Dame DC (Doria) Cordova
Steward of the Money & You program, a global experiential education ecosystem built on Fuller's systems thinking that…
Dana Miller
American museum curator, longtime curator of the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose…
Daniel López-Pérez
Architect, educator, and editor who reconstructed and annotated R. Buckminster Fuller's lectures and lexicon in the…
David E. Nye
American historian of technology and prolific author on energy and culture who contributed the essay on energy in…
David Johnston (builder)
American green-building advocate, founder of the What's Working consulting firm, who helped commercialize passive-solar…
David Kruschke
American designer and teacher who wrote and hand-lettered the Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry (1975), deriving…
David W. Orr
American environmental educator (b. ~1944) who coined 'ecological literacy' and pioneered ecological design in higher…
Donald W. Robertson
Author of The Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller (1974), a study of how Fuller's mind worked told through his patents and…
Duncan Stuart
Painter, geometer, and North Carolina State School of Design professor who served as the house mathematician for…
E. J. Applewhite
American writer and former CIA officer (1919–2005) who became Fuller's principal collaborator on Synergetics, and later…
Eduard F. Sekler
Austrian-American architecture historian at Harvard who contributed 'Structure, construction, tectonics' to the Kepes…
Edward Popko
Author of Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere, a thorough introduction to the…
Edwin Schlossberg
American designer, artist, and author (b. 1945), a pioneer of interactive-experience design who collaborated with…
Einar Thorsteinn
Icelandic architect and geometry specialist (1942–2015), a longtime collaborator of artist Olafur Eliasson who worked…
Elizabeth A. T. Smith
American curator and museum executive who contributed a catalogue essay examining Buckminster Fuller's impact on…
Eric A. Walker
British-born American electrical engineer and educator (1910–1995), president of Pennsylvania State University, who…
Euclid
Greek mathematician (fl. c. 300 BCE) whose Elements defined the geometry Fuller built synergetics against — rejecting…
Eva Díaz
Art historian, author of The Experimenters (2015), which uses Black Mountain College to compare the rival experimental…
Federico Neder
Architect and scholar, author of 'Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Dwellings' (2008), a study of…
Felicity D. Scott
Architecture professor at Columbia GSAPP and founding co-editor of Grey Room who contributed the essay on Fuller's…
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867–1959), the towering figure of organic architecture, an older contemporary against whom…
Fred Turner
American media historian and Stanford communication professor whose history of the Whole Earth network traces how…
Frei Otto
German architect and engineer (1925–2015), pioneer of lightweight tensile and membrane structures and a design-science…
Friedrich Froebel
German educator (1782–1852) who founded the kindergarten and devised the geometric 'gifts,' play materials widely cited…
Fumihiko Maki
Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner who co-contributed 'Some thoughts on collective form' with Masato Ohtaka…
Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer (1564–1642), a founder of modern experimental science whom Fuller invoked…
Gene Keyes
American cartographer and peace researcher (b. 1941) who developed the Cahill-Keyes world map projection and wrote…
George W. Hart
American sculptor and geometer (b. 1955), maker of intricate polyhedral sculpture and a leading expositor of the…
Gerard K. O'Neill
American physicist (1927-1992) who designed large rotating space habitats ('O'Neill cylinders') and, as a Fuller…
Gyorgy Kepes
Hungarian-born artist, designer, and MIT theorist (1906–2001) who edited 'Structure in Art and in Science' (1965), a…
H. L. C. Jaffé
Dutch art historian and De Stijl specialist who contributed 'Syntactic structure in the visual arts' to the Kepes…
H. S. M. Coxeter
British-Canadian geometer (1907–2003), the twentieth century's foremost classical geometer, author of Regular Polytopes…
Halford Mackinder
British geographer and founder of geopolitics (1861–1947), whose Heartland theory Fuller invoked in 'The Comprehensive…
Harold Kroto
British chemist (1939–2016) who co-discovered the C60 molecule and named it 'buckminsterfullerene' after Fuller's…
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894) who experimentally proved the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by Maxwell, and…
Henry Dreyfuss
Pioneering American industrial designer (1904–1972) who authored the 'Symbol Sourcebook' (1972), for which Buckminster…
Henry Ford
American industrialist (1863–1947) whose moving assembly line and mass production of the automobile are the explicit…
Henry L. Kamphoefner
Dean of the School of Design at North Carolina State University (1907-1990) who built one of the most influential…
Hideo Sasaki
Japanese-American landscape architect (1919–2000) and influential educator who reshaped mid-century American landscape…
Howard P. Segal
Historian of technology and utopianism at the University of Maine who contributed the essay on Fuller as America's last…
Hsiao-Yun Chu
Design historian and Fuller scholar who co-edited the Stanford collection New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller and a…
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
British science writer (b. 1959), author of The Most Beautiful Molecule, a history of buckminsterfullerene, the carbon…
Hugh Ferriss
American architectural delineator (1889–1962) whose charcoal renderings, collected in The Metropolis of Tomorrow…
Hugh Kenner
Canadian-American literary critic (1923–2003), the leading scholar of literary modernism, who was also fascinated by…
I. A. Richards
British literary critic and father of New Criticism who contributed 'Structure and communication' to the Kepes…
Immanuel Kant
German Enlightenment philosopher (1724–1804) whose epistemology — the a priori/a posteriori distinction and the…
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician (1642–1727) whose mechanics Fuller invoked as his great foil — 'Newton was a…
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American sculptor and designer (1904–1988), one of Fuller's closest lifelong friends, who sculpted a…
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-British mathematician and science broadcaster who contributed 'The discovery of form' to the Kepes anthology…
Jaime Snyder
Buckminster Fuller's grandson — son of Allegra Fuller Snyder and documentary filmmaker Robert Snyder — who introduced…
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879) who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetism and predicted electromagnetic…
James Meller
Editor of The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970), a curated sampler of Fuller's writings — chronology, autobiography, and…
James Monroe Hewlett
American architect and muralist (1868–1941), Buckminster Fuller's father-in-law, whose patented compressed-fiber…
James R. Killian Jr.
American academic administrator (1904–1988), president of MIT and the first full-time presidential science advisor,…
James T. Baldwin
American industrial designer and writer (1933–2018), a student of Fuller who became a leading interpreter of his ideas…
James Ward
Editor, with descriptions, of the four-volume Garland series The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (1985) — the…
Jason F. McLennan
Canadian-American architect (b. 1973), creator of the Living Building Challenge and a leading figure in regenerative…
Jasper Johns
American painter (b. 1930) of flags, targets, and numbers whose postwar art-world prominence places him among Fuller's…
Jeannie Moberly
Philadelphia artist active in the Synergetics Collaborative, whose exhibitions (including 'The Comprehensivist') and…
Jerome Agel
American author, editor, and book producer (1930–2007) who produced and co-created Buckminster Fuller's collage-style…
Joachim Krausse
German design theorist and Fuller scholar, co-editor of the compendium Your Private Sky, whose archival essays trace…
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer and mathematician (1571–1630) whose laws of planetary motion and polyhedral cosmology place him in…
John Cage
American experimental composer (1912–1992), pioneer of chance operations and 4′33″, a Black Mountain College colleague…
John Denver
American singer-songwriter (1943–1997) and friend of Buckminster Fuller, who wrote the song 'What One Man Can Do' in…
John Dos Passos
American modernist novelist (1896–1970), author of the U.S.A. trilogy, a contemporary of Fuller in the interwar New…
John F. Sase
Author of A View from the Bridge of Spaceship Earth, a guidebook offering reflections on the thoughts and teachings of…
John McHale
Scottish-born artist, sociologist, and futurist (1922–1978) who was Fuller's key collaborator on the World Design…
John Prenis
Author of The Dome Builder's Handbook (1973), a DIY guide that helped popularize Fuller's geodesic dome among…
Jonas Salk
American virologist (1914–1995) who developed the first polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute; a contemporary…
Jonathan Massey
Architecture historian and professor who contributed the essay on Fuller's sumptuary aesthetic to New Views on R.…
Jonathan Williams
American poet, publisher, and photographer (1929–2008) who founded the Jargon Society and, as a Black Mountain College…
Josef Albers
German-born artist and educator (1888–1976), a Bauhaus master who led the art program at Black Mountain College — where…
Joseph Clinton
American design scientist with a long professional association with Fuller, who researched the mathematics of geodesic…
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903) who founded chemical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and helped create vector…
K. Michael Hays
American architectural theorist and historian at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, co-editor of the Whitney…
Keith Critchlow
British artist, geometer, and educator (1933–2020), author of Order in Space and a founder of the sacred-geometry…
Kenneth Snelson
American sculptor (1927–2016) whose 'floating compression' structures were the physical origin of tensegrity — the…
Kirby Urner
Portland-based educator and programmer who teaches synergetics through Python and computational geometry. Author of the…
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Japanese-American author and civil-rights, anti-war, gay-liberation, and AIDS activist (1943–2000) who served as R.…
Knud Lonberg-Holm
Danish-American Modernist architect and designer (1895–1972), the 'father of information design' and, by his own…
L. Clark Stevens
Author of est: The Steersman Handbook (1970), a counterculture cybernetics manifesto that names Fuller an 'authentic…
Lancelot L. Whyte
British physicist and philosopher of science who contributed 'Atomism, structure and form' to the Kepes anthology…
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist and Bauhaus master (1895–1946) who founded the New Bauhaus / Institute of Design in Chicago, on whose…
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect (1887–1965), a founder of modernist architecture whose 'machine for living' and industrial…
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519) whose fusion of art, science, and invention is the historical archetype Fuller…
Lewis Mumford
American historian and philosopher of technology (1895–1990), a major theorist of cities and machines whose humanistic…
Lim Chong Keat
Malaysian-born architect (b. 1930), a leading modernist of Singapore and Malaysia and a close friend of Buckminster…
Linus Pauling
American chemist (1901–1994) who pioneered the study of the chemical bond and molecular structure, and whose accounts…
Lloyd Kahn
American publisher and builder (b. 1935), the Whole Earth Catalog's shelter editor and author of Domebook 1 & 2 — who…
Lloyd Steven Sieden
Author of Buckminster Fuller's Universe (1989), a comprehensive biography frequently recommended as the single most…
Loretta Lorance
Architectural historian, author of Becoming Bucky Fuller (2009), the myth-puncturing scholarly account of Fuller's…
Louis Kahn
Estonian-born American architect (1901–1974) of monumental masonry and concrete, a friend of Fuller whose architecture…
Louise Morley Cochrane
Writer and educational broadcaster, daughter of American author Christopher Morley, who chronicled the friendship…
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Austrian biologist (1901–1972), a founder of general systems theory and the 'open system' concept — the systems-science…
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States (1908–1973), the head of state during whose administration Fuller's 'Triton City'…
Manly P. Hall
Canadian author and lecturer on esoteric philosophy (1901–1990), best known for The Secret Teachings of All Ages —…
Marcel Duchamp
French avant-garde artist (1887–1968), inventor of the readymade, a central figure of the Cage / Black Mountain…
Margaret Fuller
American Transcendentalist writer, editor, and feminist (1810–1850), Buckminster Fuller's great-aunt, whose…
Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978), author of Coming of Age in Samoa and a leading public intellectual, who…
Margit Staber
Swiss art critic and historian specializing in concrete art who contributed 'Concrete painting as structural painting'…
Maria Gough
Art historian specializing in Russian constructivism and 20th-century art who contributed the essay on three Fuller…
Marilyn Ferguson
American author and editor (1938–2008) whose 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy became a defining text of the…
Marina Warner
British mythographer and cultural historian (b. 1946), Professor of English at Birkbeck, whose work on myth,…
Mark Wigley
New Zealand-born architectural theorist and historian (born 1956), professor and former dean at Columbia University's…
Markus Richter
Curator and essayist who chronicled Buckminster Fuller's reception in contemporary art, notably in his essay 'Jitterbug…
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian media theorist (1911–1980) who declared 'the medium is the message' and 'global village' — a kindred systems…
Martin Gardner
American popular-mathematics and science writer (1914–2010) whose Scientific American 'Mathematical Games' column made…
Martin Meyerson
American urban planner and university administrator (1922–2007), president of the University of Pennsylvania during R.…
Martin Pawley
British architecture critic and writer (1938–2008), author of a Buckminster Fuller biography that places him among the…
Mary Laycock
Mathematics educator and author of 'Bucky for Beginners: Synergetic Geometry,' an accessible introduction translating…
Masato Ohtaka
Japanese architect associated with the Metabolist movement who co-contributed 'Some thoughts on collective form' with…
Max Bill
Swiss artist, architect, and designer who contributed 'Structure as art? Art as structure?' to the Kepes anthology…
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947), originator of quantum theory, whose discrete-energy physics Fuller absorbed…
Medard Gabel
American systems researcher, longtime Fuller collaborator and former executive director of the World Game Institute,…
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009) who revolutionized modern dance through chance and the independence of…
Michael John Gorman
Historian of science and museum director; author of Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility (Skira, 2005).
Nathan Aaseng
American author of nonfiction for young readers (b. 1953) who wrote More with Less: The Future World of Buckminster…
Nicolas Bourbaki
The collective pseudonym of a group of (mostly French) mathematicians who, from the 1930s, rebuilt mathematics on…
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer (1856–1943) whose alternating-current and wireless-energy vision…
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and dissident public intellectual (b. 1928) who appears in the corpus as a parallel voice of Fuller's…
Noel B. Murphy
Filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed BUCKY: A Fuller Future (2020), presenting Fuller as the 'Grandfather of…
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician (1894–1964) who founded cybernetics — the science of control and communication in animals and…
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical and industrial designer and futurist (1893–1958), best known for the Futurama exhibit he designed…
Norman Brosterman
American author, artist, and collector best known for Inventing Kindergarten (1997), which traces Friedrich Froebel's…
Norman Cousins
Longtime editor of the Saturday Review who published Fuller's contribution to the 'What I Have Learned' series and…
Norman Foster
British architect (b. 1935), a leader of high-tech architecture who collaborated directly with Fuller in the 1970s–80s…
Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic artist (b. 1967) whose spatial and geometric work draws on Buckminster Fuller's structures, developed…
Paolo Soleri
Italian-American architect (1919–2013) who coined 'arcology' and built Arcosanti — a visionary attempt to fuse…
Patricia Ravasio
Author of 'The Girl from Spaceship Earth,' a memoir recounting her conversations with Buckminster Fuller near the end…
Percy Bridgman
American physicist (1882–1961), Nobel laureate in high-pressure physics and originator of operationalism, whose…
Peter Blake
German-born American architect, critic, and magazine editor (1920–2006) who led Architectural Forum and edited its 1972…
Peter H. Wagschal
Educator and futures-studies scholar at the University of Massachusetts who co-edited R. Buckminster Fuller on…
Peter Jon Pearce
American product designer and inventor (b. 1936), a Fuller associate whose space-frame systems and book Structure in…
Peter Smithson
British architect and co-founder of New Brutalism who co-contributed 'Building toward the community structure' with…
Phil Cousineau
American writer, editor, and documentary filmmaker (b. 1952) who co-authored 'Design Outlaws on the Ecological…
Phillip M. Pierson
Author of 'The Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller: How to Let the Universe Work for You,' a popular interpretation of…
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian structural engineer and master of reinforced concrete who contributed 'Is architecture moving toward…
Plato
Greek philosopher (c. 428–348 BCE) whose five regular solids and geometric account of the elements are the classical…
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher-mathematician (c. 570–495 BCE) whose doctrine that reality is structured by number and ratio is the…
Quentin Fiore
American graphic designer (1920–2019) who gave visual form to Buckminster Fuller's 'I Seem to Be a Verb' and to…
R. Buckminster Fuller
John McHale's 1962 monograph 'R. Buckminster Fuller' (George Braziller, 'Makers of Contemporary Architecture' series) —…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, and poet (1803–1882), the central figure of New England Transcendentalism, counted among…
Rammellzee
New York visual artist, theoretician, and hip-hop musician (1960–2010) whose 'Gothic Futurism' built an elaborate…
Reinhold Martin
Architecture professor at Columbia GSAPP and founding co-editor of Grey Room who contributed the essay on Fuller's…
Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr.
Buckminster Fuller's father (1861–1910), a Boston leather and tea importer whose business and early death shaped…
Richard Held
Perceptual psychologist at MIT who contributed 'Object and effigy' to the Kepes anthology Structure in Art and in…
Richard J. Brenneman
American journalist who interviewed R. Buckminster Fuller and authored 'Fuller's Earth: A Day with Bucky and the Kids'…
Richard Lippold
American sculptor known for geometric wire constructions who contributed 'Illusion as structure' to the Kepes anthology…
Richard Smalley
American chemist (1943–2005) who co-discovered C60 buckminsterfullerene and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Robert Anton Wilson
American author and futurist (1932–2007), a countercultural synthesizer of general semantics, systems thinking, and…
Robert D. Kahn
Editor who, with Peter H. Wagschal at the University of Massachusetts, collected and edited R. Buckminster Fuller's…
Robert Geddes
American architect and educator (1923–2023), founding dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture, who hosted…
Robert Marks
Author of The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller (1960), the classic illustrated survey that first gathered Fuller's…
Robert Pickus
Jewish/Quaker pacifist and peace organizer who founded the World Without War Council and whose grand strategy for…
Robert R. Potter
Author of the juvenile biography Buckminster Fuller (Silver Burdett Press, 1990), which traces Fuller's farsighted…
Robert Rauschenberg
American artist (1925–2008) whose Combines bridged painting and sculpture; a student at Black Mountain College during…
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinologist and author (b. 1957), a Stanford scientist known for work on stress and behavior —…
Robert Smithson
American land artist (1938–1973), creator of Spiral Jetty, whose engagement with entropy and structure ran…
Robert Snyder
American documentary filmmaker (1916–2004) who made films of Buckminster Fuller — including the Autobiographical…
Robert Williams
American designer and geometer, author of The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure, whose study of space-filling…
Roberto G. Trujillo
Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries who co-edited New Views on R.…
Roland Nachtigäller
German museum director and curator who, as director of the Marta Herford museum, framed its Buckminster Fuller…
Rosamond Fuller Kenison
Buckminster Fuller's younger sister, known in the family as 'Rosy,' interviewed as a firsthand source for Athena V.…
Rupert Sheldrake
British biologist and author (b. 1942) known for the hypothesis of 'morphic resonance' — a holistic, anti-mechanist…
Russell Davenport
American magazine editor and poet (1899–1954), managing editor of Fortune and author of the poem 'My Country,' who…
Ruth Asawa
American modernist sculptor (1926–2013) of looped-wire forms, a Black Mountain College student in the years Fuller…
Sam Green
American documentary filmmaker (b. 1966) who chronicled Buckminster Fuller in the 'live documentary' The Love Song of…
Scott Eastham
Scholar of religion and culture (1949–2013), author of American Dreamer: Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature…
Shoji Sadao
Japanese-American architect and cartographer (1927–2019), Fuller's business partner in Fuller & Sadao and the draftsman…
Sidney Rosen
American author and educator who wrote Wizard of the Dome (1969), an accessible narrative biography of Fuller for…
Siobhan Roberts
Canadian science journalist and biographer, author of The Man Who Saved Geometry (a.k.a. King of Infinite Space), the…
Stan Allen
American architect and former dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture who wrote the postscript essay…
Stan VanDerBeek
American experimental filmmaker (1927–1984) whose dome-based Movie-Drome turned Fuller's geodesic dome into an…
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician (1909–1984) — Manhattan Project physicist, co-inventor of the Monte Carlo method and…
Steve Baer
American inventor (b. 1938), pioneer of passive-solar technology and originator of the 'zome' — a Fuller-inspired…
Stewart Brand
American writer and editor (b. 1938), creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, who made Fuller its patron saint and…
Studs Terkel
American broadcaster and oral historian (1912–2008), Pulitzer-winning author and host of the WFMT radio program, who…
Susan Sontag
American essayist and cultural critic (1933–2004) who appears in the corpus as a contemporary voice of the same postwar…
Syeus Mottel
Photographer and author of Charas: The Improbable Dome Builders (1973), the photo-documentary account of the CHARAS…
Tatyana Grosman
Russian-born American art publisher and master printer (1904–1982), founder of Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE),…
Taylor Littleton
Editor who wrote the preface to Approaching the Benign Environment, the volume drawn from Auburn University's Franklin…
Ted Nelson
American information-technology pioneer (b. 1937) who coined 'hypertext' and 'hypermedia' and conceived Project Xanadu…
Thomas Edison
American inventor and industrialist (1847–1931) whose model of systematic, research-driven invention and industrial…
Thomas Malthus
English cleric and political economist (1766–1834) whose theory of population-driven scarcity Fuller invoked as the…
Thomas T. K. Zung
Chinese-American architect and Buckminster Fuller's final architectural partner, editor of 'Buckminster Fuller:…
Timothy Stott
Art historian and scholar of modern and contemporary art who wrote 'Buckminster Fuller's World Game and Its Legacy'…
Tomás Saraceno
Argentine artist (b. 1973) whose floating 'Cloud Cities' and 'Air-Port-City' works extend Buckminster Fuller's Cloud…
Trevor Blake
Bibliographer and collector who holds the largest private collection of works by and about Fuller (~six tons), and…
W. Starling Burgess
American aviation pioneer and naval architect (1878–1947) who engineered the drawings for Buckminster Fuller's…
Walter Gropius
German architect (1883–1969), founder of the Bauhaus, whose art-and-technology program defined the modern…
Walther Bauersfeld
German engineer (1879–1959) at Carl Zeiss who designed and built the first geodesic dome — the Jena planetarium of…
Werner Erhard
American founder of est and co-founder of The Hunger Project (1977), with which Fuller was closely allied — appearing…
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist (1901–1976), founder of quantum mechanics and author of the uncertainty principle, whose…
William McDonough
American architect (b. 1951), co-author of Cradle to Cradle and advocate of closed-loop, waste-equals-food design — a…
Yehudi Menuhin
American-born British violinist and conductor (1916-1999) who admired Buckminster Fuller and contributed to his…
Yousuf Karsh
Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer (1908–2002), famed for his iconic likenesses of world figures, who made a 1980…