Buckminster Fuller [SEP] place of birth
and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.
Life and work.
Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and grand-nephew of Margaret Fuller, an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. The unusual middle name, Buckminster, was an ancestral family name. As a child, Richard Buckminster Fuller tried numerous
Cindy Sherman's photographs and the first museum presentations of then-emerging artists Uta Barth, Toba Khedoori, Catherine Opie, and Margaret Honda as well as a collaboration between artist Kiki Smith and architect Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelblau.
Besides her exhibition catalogues, Smith's writings have appeared in such publications as "Do-ho Suh: Drawings"; "Chicago Makes Modern"; "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe"; "Design Cities 1851–2008"; "Birth of the Cool"; and the "54th