FULLER, Buckminster
(1895–1983)
FULLER, Buckminster (12 July 1895–1 July 1983). The architectural historian Wayne Andrews identified, in Architecture, Ambition, and Americans (1955), two indigenous architectural traditions, producing buildings as fundamentally different as their rationales. One, typified in American thought by William James (1842–1910), holds that a beautiful building will enhance the lives of all who dwell within and around it, as elegant architecture supposedly doth elegant people make. The second…