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Buckminster Fuller

1895 - 1983

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Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buckminster Fuller has received more than 4,035,341 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Buckminster Fuller is the 65th most popular architect (down from 46th in 2019), the 749th most popular biography from United States (down from 545th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Architect.

Buckminster fuller is most famous for his geodesic dome.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Buckminster Fuller ranks 65 out of 424. Before him are Aldo Rossi, Arnolfo di Cambio, Philip Johnson, Ricardo Bofill, Jean Nouvel, and Senenmut. After him are Charles Garnier, Hector Guimard, Minoru Yamasaki, Peter Zumthor, Erich Mendelsohn, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Buckminster Fuller ranks 48. Before him are Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Jürgen Stroop, Vasily Blokhin, Albert Göring, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Dorothea Lange, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Augusto César Sandino, Richard Walther Darré, Stanley Rous, and William Giauque. Among people deceased in 1983, Buckminster Fuller ranks 21. Before him are Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Albert Claude, Gloria Swanson, George Cukor, and Gerhard Barkhorn. After him are Alfred Tarski, John Fante, Anna Seghers, George Balanchine, Aleksandar Ranković, and Muddy Waters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 749 out of 18,182. Before him are Irving Fisher (1867), Ryan O'Neal (1941), Tippi Hedren (1930), Edward Norton (1969), Burgess Meredith (1907), and Alice Cooper (1948). After him are Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Tobin Bell (1942), H. L. Mencken (1880), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), and John Searle (1932).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Buckminster Fuller ranks 5. Before him are Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Louis Sullivan (1856), Richard Meier (1934), and Philip Johnson (1906). After him are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Robert Venturi (1925), Peter Eisenman (1932), Charles Eames (1907), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), and Adrian Smith (1944).

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