There have been several books about Fuller and his work, but they have tended to be written by acolytes who took the Great Man at his word. Buckminster Fuller, although, as Alec Nevala-Lee writes in his revealing new biography, “Inventor of the Future,” Fuller “had minimal input on many of the structures with which he was associated, including the Montreal Expo Dome, which was seen as his masterpiece.” The icosahedral structure, commonly known as a geodesic dome, would become one of the most enduring legacies of the American futurist R. It was obviously an engineering feat, yet it gave the impression of something organic, a diaphanous soap bubble maybe. This was not architecture in the conventional sense - no walls or ceiling, just a curved transparent skin. pavilion, a three-quarter sphere that was 250 feet in diameter and felt even larger inside. As a recently minted architect making regular work visits to the site, I was able to follow the construction of the U.S. I was living in Montreal when it hosted Expo 67, arguably the last great world’s fair. INVENTOR OF THE FUTURE: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, by Alec Nevala-Lee
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