Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel ...

Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring ...

The other day, I visited the former Honda residence during the Zushi Art Festival. There, I encountered a world map with an unfamiliar shape. The world was depicted as a combination of triangles, with ...

The world has changed in countless ways since Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map in 1943. Wars have come and gone, populations have changed, and entire generations have passed. But Bucky’s ...

Seventy years ago, Buckminster Fuller’s icosahedral “Dymaxion Map” (or Fuller Projection Map) first appeared in Life magazine. The innovator and technologist, perhaps best known for inventing the ...

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The Dymaxion House was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher R. Buckminister Fuller - who would have turned 124 today. The word “Dymaxion,” which combines the words ...

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer ...