학력

1913 ~ 1915 하버드대학교 중퇴
밀턴아카데미

경력

1962 미국 하버드대학교 교수
1959 ~ 1975 미국 서던일리노이대학교 카번데일교 설계과학 교수
1936 ~ 1948 펠프스도지 디자이너

수상경력

1970 전미 건축가협회 금메달
1968 영국 건축가협회 금메달

추가정보

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983)was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary.

Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to identify what he, as an individual, could do to improve humanity's condition, which large organizations, governments, and private enterprises inherently could not do.

Pursuing this lifelong experiment, Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.