Buckminster fuller is an American architect, scientist, engineer, and inventor. Although he never obtained a degree in architecture, he was an architect and engineer who designed revolutionary structures. In the post war period architect start thinking of the coming Utopia technology and by the promising of a period of raped reconstruction. In this paper I am going to talk about the theory of mass production and a new architecture that care about environment that Fuller developed. We know that the building currently consume half the world's energy and significantly add to the spiral of pollution through the consumption of non-renewable fossil foul. .
Fuller start to developed the idea of what he called comprehensive anticipatory design science, which attempt to anticipate and solve humanity's major problems by providing more and more life support for everybody with less and less resources. I mean that he believe that we can produce shelter to everyone, not be the use of forest product and other material that cause pollution. He think that true modern architecture is arrived by the new material and engineering logic of new construction techniques. Throughout his life, R. Buckminster Fuller relied upon his 'uncommon sense' and engineering background to develop innovative principles of design.
Fuller hope to create a new market of affordable, hygienic and modern housing. He advantages of his products of modern architecture could be quantified using "criteria as weight, time and cost- so anything that could not be weighed and measure was deemed irrelevant. Fuller had created of the 4-D tower, 1927 show the compression between the tower and the tradition house. .
This is a diagram he did to compare between the 4-D tower and the tradition house: .
4-D tower Tradition house.
Time to erect One day 6 months.
Fire proof Yes No.
Operating cost 1 10.
Completely independent power, light, heat, disposal, etc.