Richard Buckminster Fuller (born 1895) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He coined or popularised such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".
Fuller had a turbulent youth and early adult life and suffered from depression and anxiety, but also challenged conventional thinking around mathematics and engineering. After a number of industrial jobs and failed projects he moved to New York where he built his reputation as an innovative thinker and designer. He achieved fame with the development and promotion of geodesic domes and was subsequently professor at a number of American Universities. He was a prolific author and public speaker.
He died in 1983. He has been honoured with a US postage stamp (27c, 2004) and the naming of the carbon compound Fullerene.
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