Thomas T. K. Zung
Chinese-American architect and Buckminster Fuller's final business partner, of the firm Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects.
Thomas T. K. Zung is an architect whose practice, based largely in Cleveland, Ohio, became the vehicle for Buckminster Fuller's late architectural work. In addition to his design career he served as an editor and custodian of Fuller's legacy, assembling anthologies of Fuller's writing after Fuller's death and continuing to promote geodesic and comprehensive-design ideas.
Relationship to Fuller
Relationship: collaborator. Zung was R. Buckminster Fuller's final architectural partner, joining Fuller and Shoji Sadao to form the firm Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects — an outgrowth of the earlier Fuller & Sadao partnership. After Fuller's death in 1983, Zung edited Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium and Call Me Trim Tab, helping to keep Fuller's writings and design philosophy in circulation.
See Also
- R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
- Shoji Sadao (Shoji Sadao) — fellow partner in Fuller's late architectural practice
- Fuller & Sadao (Fuller & Sadao) — the predecessor firm to Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung
Sources
- Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.