Buckminster Fuller anticipated the problems we're facing today, says exhibition curator
Drawings and maquettes by Buckminster Fuller prove that he predicted current global issues, and demonstrate how he proposed to solve them, according to the curator of an upcoming exhibition about the late inventor.
The projects to be displayed in the Richard Buckminster Fuller, Inventions and Models exhibition ? which opens at Edward Cella Art + Architecture in Los Angeles next month ? present forward-thinking solutions for affordable housing and transport that make "the most with the least".
Curator and gallery founder Edward Cella told Dezeen that the inventor's ambitions to address urban and environmental problems makes him "particularly relevant" today, even 35 years after his death.
Buckminster Fuller aimed to address global issues with designs such as prefab, affordable housing. Top and above images are courtesy of Edward Cella Art + Architecture "Fuller anticipated many of the things that we're facing today," he said. "He believed that... we had a set of resources and tools and knowledge available to us, and we needed to make the most with the least in order to properly operate our 'spaceship'."
"It's incredulous to me that we find ourselves two centuries later and the issues that he anticipated are with us today," he continued. "As an inventor, as an educator, as a proponent of scientific and architectural investigation, those legacies are so relevant to what is going on in the world today."
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