Allegra Fuller Snyder
Allegra Fuller Snyder (1927–2024), Buckminster Fuller's surviving daughter — a dance ethnologist and professor at UCLA, and a leading custodian of her father's archive and ideas.
Allegra was born in 1927, the year of the personal crisis and turnaround that reset Fuller's life. A scholar and teacher of dance and dance ethnology at UCLA, she later devoted much of her life to preserving and interpreting her father's work — as a founder and long-time chair/president of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. She married the documentary filmmaker Robert Snyder, whose extended films of Fuller captured his spoken thought at length.
Relationship to Fuller
Relationship: family (daughter). Allegra is R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller's second daughter, born after the early death of her sister Alexandra. Beyond the family tie, she is central to how Fuller's legacy has been carried forward: her stewardship of the archive and her leadership at the Buckminster Fuller Institute shaped the institutional afterlife of his work, and her husband Robert Snyder's films are among the primary records of Fuller in his own voice.
See Also
- R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — her father
- Anne Hewlett Fuller (Anne Hewlett Fuller) — her mother
- Alexandra Fuller (Alexandra Fuller) — her elder sister, who died in childhood
- Robert Snyder (Robert Snyder) — her husband, the documentary filmmaker
- Buckminster Fuller Institute (Buckminster Fuller Institute) — which she helped found and long chaired
Sources
- Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions (she appears across biographies, the timeline, and works such as Tetrascroll and Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth); no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.