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1 Fuller, Richard Buckminster
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 12 July 1895 Milton, Massachusetts, USAd. 1 July 1983 Los Angeles, California, USA[br]American engineer, designer and inventor noted particularly for his creation of the geodesic dome.[br]After naval service during the First World War, Fuller worked for some time in the building industry with his father, who was an architect. In 1927 he became interested in trying to solve social problems by providing good, low-cost housing for an expanding population. Utilizing modern techniques applicable in other industries, such as the design of aircraft and ships, he produced his "Dymaxion House", which was transportable and cheap. This was followed in 1946 by his aluminium, stressed-skin, prefabricated house. The geodesic dome is the structural concept for which Fuller is particularly known. It was patented in 1954 and 300,000 were built over a thirty-year period. He had envisaged the dome being utilized on smaller or larger, simple or complex patterns for a wide variety of needs such as enclosing a covered area for a house, a botanical garden, an exhibition pavilion, a factory, a weather station or, indeed, an entire city. A famous example that he designed was that for the US pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. A geodesic dome is generally spherical in form, the chief structural elements of which are interconnected in a geodesic pattern, i.e. one in which the lines connecting two points are the shortest possible. The structure is composed of slender, lightweight struts (usually of aluminium) arranged in geometrical patterns, with the metal skeleton covered by a light, plastic material. Inside the dome, all the space is usable and the climate is controllable. Fuller wrote and lectured widely on his patented invention, explaining the importance of structural research particularly in relation to world needs.[br]Bibliography1975, Synergetics: Exploration on the Geometry of Thinking, Macmillan.1973, with R.W.Marks, The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller, New York: Reprint Anchor.Further ReadingM.Pawley, 1990, Buckminster Fuller, Trefoil Books.DYBiographical history of technology > Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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2 Fuller, (Richard) Buckminster
(1895-1983) Фуллер, (Ричард) БакминстерДизайнер, инженер, математик и философ. Учился в Гарварде [ Harvard University]. С 1947 разрабатывал легкие и прочные "геодезические купола" [ geodesic dome] - пространственные стальные конструкции из прямых стержней. Им созданы выставочный павильон США в Сокольниках в Москве (1959), павильон США на Всемирной выставке в Монреале (1967). Внес значительный вклад в философии борьбы за мир, создав концепцию "космического корабля Земля" [Spaceship Earth]. Выступал с теорией "тотального дизайна" - изменения жизни средствами рациональной технологии. В Лос-Анджелесе действует институт его имени [The Buckminster Fuller Institute], занимающийся распространением его наследияEnglish-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Fuller, (Richard) Buckminster
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[ˊfulǝr] Фуллер, Ричард Бакминстер (1895—1983), архитектор и инженерСША. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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Minimaltragwerk in Form einer Kugelkalotte aus schlanken Stäben oder Stäben und Seilen. Hauptsächlicher Anwendungsbereich sind Schutzkuppeln über Radaranlagen. Benannt nach Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), einem Ingenieur und Erfinder, der konstruktive Lösungen aus philosophischen Denkansätzen herleitete.siehe Abb.
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Легкая и прочная стальная пространственная архитектурная конструкция из прямых стержней. Состоит из стандартных многоугольных элементов. Конструкция купола изобретена Б. Фуллером [ Fuller, (Richard) Buckminster]. Среди наиболее известных построек - выставочный павильон в Сокольниках в Москве (1959), павильон США на Всемирной выставке в Монреале (1967)English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > geodesic dome
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