a+u 2023:08　Feature: The Seven Principles of R. Buckminster Fuller

【Publisher】ａ+ｕ（エーアンドユー）

【ISBN】4910019730835

【Publication date】2023.07

【Weight】0.6kg

Content

a+u’s August issue features Buckminster Fuller’s 7 principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Fuller, born in 1895, spent more than 5 decades of his career, from 1927 till his death in 1983, dedicated to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. With a far-reaching perspective on the world’s problems, he left behind numerous patents and inventions, having a massive influence over the generations that have followed. As detailed in an article by Fuller published in this issue, “We can invent objectively the instruments and tools that qualify us as local Universe problem-solvers.” His profound understanding of Universe led to his discovery of the principles, and thus to his inventions, including industrialized prefabricated houses, geodesic domes, and cartography. In this issue, Fuller’s patents and their real-world applications are selected and organized into chapters framed by these principles. Fuller, who held 24 patents in his lifetime, saw a patent as a catalog of Universe, a form of inheriting knowledge that can be accumulated and used by everyone. With the 7 principles as their foundation, the 13 patents and 30 works featured here reflect Fuller’s lifelong dedication and half-century of work on ambitious and diverse “experiments in individual initiative” – and the “polyhedral” image of Buckminster Fuller. (a+u)

Introduction: Bucky as System
Daichi Shigemoto

Essay: Experiment in Individual Initiative
R. Buckminster Fuller

4D
　4D Time Lock
　4D Lightful Tower / Fuller 4D Tower Garage
　United States Patent Application: 4D House

Dymaxion
　Dymaxion House
　United States Patent 2220482: Prefabricated Bathroom
　Dymaxion Bathroom
　United States Patent 2343764 / United States Patent 2351419:
　Building Construction
　Dymaxion Deployment Unit
　Wichita House
　United States Patent 2101057: Motor Vehicle
　Dymaxion Car

Synergetics
　United States Patent 2986241: Synergetic Building Construction
　Airplane Hanger
　Proposal for United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67

Geodesic
　United States Pavilion, Montréal Expo ’67
　United States Patent 2682235: Building Construction
　Ford Rotunda 88
　United States Patent 2905113: Self-Strutted Geodesic Plydome
　United States Patent 3197927: Geodesic Structures
　Des Moines Plydome / Cornell Pinecone Plydome
　Fly’s Eye Dome
　United States Patent 2914074: Geodesic Tent
　Kaiser Dome
　United States Patent 3203144: Laminar Geodesic Dome
　Spaceship Earth, Epcot
　Geodesic Dome for the US Marine Corp
　Drop City
　R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home

Tensegrity
　United States Patent 3063521: Tensile-Integrity Structures
　United States Patent 3866366: Non-Symmetrical Tension-Integrity
　Structures
　Geodesic Tensegrity Dome / Tensegrity Sphere
　Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller

Design Science
　Skyrise for Harlem/ Dome Over Manhattan/
　Tetrahedron City/ Triton City/ Cloud Nine

Spaceship Earth
　United States Patent 2393676: Cartography
　Dymaxion Airocean World
　World Game
　Geoscope

Dymaxion Chronofile