The Lane Motor Museum didn’t spend eight years building an incredibly artful replica of the Dymaxion Car just to make Buckminster Fuller look bad. At least, we don’t think they did -- museum ...

Fuller’s visionary design philosophy behind the Dymaxion, that of sustainability, technology and human-centric design, is “completely central to architecture today,” architect Norman Foster ...

Not one of them came closer to it than American inventor Buckminster Fuller and his Dymaxion car. Fuller believed that life would be much simpler if all the hurdles around traveling could be ...

On July 21, 1933, the architectural designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller unveiled the first prototype of his iconic Dymaxion Car. It was a streamlined, futuristic vehicle with three wheels ...

Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring ...

Recently discovered blueprints to a revolutionary vehicle created by visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller are hitting the auction block this week in Chicago. The so-called Dymaxion Car featured a ...

But the total functional failure of the only Dymaxion home ever inhabited also exposes a problem Fuller never confronted: His machines were completely unadaptable. Ever sensitive to peas-of-a-pod ...

The Dymaxion House was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher R. Buckminister Fuller - who would have turned 124 today. The word “Dymaxion,” which combines ...

The Dymaxion map, invented by systems theorist and designer Buckminster Fuller in 1943, is one such attempt to display the Earth while preserving its dimensions. Unlike other projections ...

In 1920, architect, inventor, and theorist Buckminster Fuller set his sights on designing a sustainable and inexpensive dwelling. Determined to eschew middle-class waste, Fuller incorporated a ...