R. Buckminster Fuller

Called “4D,” it (the show, at Harvard) was devoted to the designs of a young man called Richard B. Fuller—known later as R. Buckminster Fuller. “4-D” was a reference to the fourth dimension, since Fuller’s designing method was from the inside out. The structure that demonstrated that method was called “the Dymaxion House,” its name a combination of “dynamic” and “maximum.”

–Patron Saints

Buckminster Fuller with model of his Dymaxion House, photograph in the Boston Globe, May 20, 1929