Fuller & Sadao

Fuller & Sadao, Inc., the architecture and design partnership Buckminster Fuller founded with the architect and cartographer Shoji Sadao — the firm through which Fuller's geodesic geometry was turned into constructed buildings.

Fuller & Sadao served as the professional vehicle for Fuller's built work over decades of collaboration. With Sadao as partner and draftsman, the firm executed Fuller's major geodesic commissions and produced the definitive drawings of the Dymaxion Map. Its landmark project was the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal — the great geodesic sphere now known as the Biosphère.

Role in Fuller's world

The firm is where Fuller's design science met the practicalities of clients, engineering, and construction. Where Synergetics set out the geometry in principle, Fuller & Sadao realized it as inhabited structure — making the partnership the operational bridge between Fuller's theory and his most visible buildings.

See Also

• Shoji Sadao (Shoji Sadao) — Fuller's partner in the firm
• Montreal Biosphere (Montreal Biosphere) — the Expo 67 dome the firm designed

Sources

• Montreal Biosphere (source reference) — a work documenting the firm's landmark project