12 July 1895 Born in Milton, Massachusetts, USA;
1914–1906 Studied, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts ;
1913–15 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ;
1917 attended, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland ;
1917 Married Anne Hewlett, daughter of architect James Monroe Hewlett :2 children;
1917–19 Served, United States Navy ;
1919–21 Assistant export manager, Armour and Company, New York ;
1922 National Accounts Sales Manager, Kelly-Springfield Truck Company ;
1922–27 president, Stockdale Building System, Chicago ;
1927–32 Founder and president, 4D Company, Chicago ;
1930–32 editor and publisher, Shelter, Philadelphia ;
1932–36 founder, director, chief engineer, Dymaxion Corporation, Bridgeport, Connecticut ;
1936–38 assistant to the director of Research and Development, Phelps Dodge Corporation, New York ;
1938–40 technical consultant, Fortune, New York ;
1940–50 vice president, chief engineer, Dymaxion Company, Delaware;
1942–44 chief mechanical engineer, United States Board of Economic Warfare, Washington, D.C. ;
1944 special assis tant to the Deputy Director of the United States Foreign Economic Administration, Washington, D.C. ;
1944–46 chairman, chief engineer, Dymaxion Dwelling Machine Corporation, Wichita, Kansas ;
1946–54 chairman, Fuller Research Foundation, Wichita ;
from 1949 president, Geodesics Incorporated, Forest Hills, New York ;
1954–59 president, Synergetics Incorporated, Raleigh, North Carolina ;
from 1957 president, Plydomes Incorporated, Des Moines, Iowa ;
1959–68 Research professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ;
from 1959 chairman, Tetrahelix Corporation, Hamilton, Ohio ;
1962–63 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University ;
1967 Harvey Cushing Orator, American Association of Neuro-Surgeons ;
1967 President, Triton Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts ;
1968 member, National Academy of Design; fellow, American Institute of Architects; fellow, Building Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences; life fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; member, National Institute of Arts and Letters; fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member, Mexican Institute of Architects; honorary member, Society of Venezuelan Architects; honorary member, Israel Institute of Engineers and Architects; honorary member, Zenralvereiningung der Architekten Österreichs; honorary member, Royal Society of Siamese Architects; honorary member, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada; Ben Franklin Fellow, Royal Society of Arts; honorary fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects; honorary fellow, Royal Academy of Fine Art, the Netherlands. Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects ;
1968–75 university professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ;
1969 Nehru Lecturer, New Delhi ;
1969 Hoyt Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ;
1970 fellow, St. Peter’s College, Oxford ;
1970 Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects ;
1970 R.Buckminster Fuller Chair of Architecture established at the University of Detroit ;
1972–75 editor-at-large, World Magazine, New York ;
1972–75 distinguished university professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale;
1972–83 World Fellow in Residence, consortium of the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and University City Science Center, Philadelphia, and consultant to the Design Science Institute, Philadelphia ;
from 1974 consultant to architects, Team 3, Penang, Malaysia;
1975 tutor in design science, International Community College, Los Angeles ;
1975 international president, MENSA, Paris ;
1975 international president, World Society for Ekistics, Athens ;
from 1975 professor emeritus Southern Illinois University, Carbondale;
from 1979 senior partner, Fuller and Sadao, Long Island ;
from 1979 chairman of the board, R.Buckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung Architects, Cleveland, Ohio ;
from 1979 senior partner, Buckminster Fuller Associates, London .
1 July 1983 Died in Los Angeles, USA. |