Portland Artist Cole Gerst’s Amazing Buckminster Fuller Book

Fuller proposed mass-produced housing, consisting of stacked hexagonal components, delivered by Zeppelin anywhere in the world.

Fuller designed a single-story version of his hexagonal home, with the semi-mystical name “4-D Time Lock.”

Fuller designed a single-story version of his hexagonal home, with the semi-mystical name “4-D Time Lock.”

Gerst, an artist and designer, gravitated to Fuller’s work while researching his own furniture design projects. “His name kept coming up,” Gerst says. “I’d always known the name, but not much about him. I dove in.”

Gerst, an artist and designer, gravitated to Fuller’s work while researching his own furniture design projects. “His name kept coming up,” Gerst says. “I’d always known the name, but not much about him. I dove in.”

From Gerst’s text: “In the early 1930s, Bucky designed a version of the Dymaxion House as a shelter for the migrant farmers in Russia…He decided he would design something that could utilize the main local material, which was wood. The floor was rope an

From Gerst’s text: “In the early 1930s, Bucky designed a version of the Dymaxion House as a shelter for the migrant farmers in Russia…He decided he would design something that could utilize the main local material, which was wood. The floor was rope an

Fuller’s short-lived magazine Shelter showcased his ideas via drawings by collaborator Isamu Noguchi.

Fuller’s short-lived magazine Shelter showcased his ideas via drawings by collaborator Isamu Noguchi.

Hiring mechanics from a Rolls Royce factory idled by the Great Depression, Fuller prototyped a three-wheeled car with a wooden frame and aluminum skin.

Hiring mechanics from a Rolls Royce factory idled by the Great Depression, Fuller prototyped a three-wheeled car with a wooden frame and aluminum skin.

The inventor’s “Airocean” map, based on a matrix of interlocking triangles, corrected the distortions of traditional map projections and focused on the strategic importance of the Arctic.

The inventor’s “Airocean” map, based on a matrix of interlocking triangles, corrected the distortions of traditional map projections and focused on the strategic importance of the Arctic.

Today, Fuller is best-known for the geodesic dome, a concept famously realized by Los Angeles architect Bernard Judge.

Today, Fuller is best-known for the geodesic dome, a concept famously realized by Los Angeles architect Bernard Judge.

Fuller designed a dome-based greenhouse for the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Fuller designed a dome-based greenhouse for the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Fuller imagined self-contained, floating cities.

Fuller imagined self-contained, floating cities.