When? and how?
Richard Buckminster ”Bucky” Fuller, an American inventor, architect, author, engineer, designer, and futurist, patented the geodesic dome in the 1940s and made it popular. The geodesic dome’s design gives it some very interesting properties. Since the structure approximates a sphere, geodesic domes have very low surface-area-to-volume ratios (i.e., its volume is relatively large compared to its surface area). Geodesic domes enclose more volume (e.g., cubic centimetres [cm3]) per unit of mass (e.g., grams [g]) of the dome than any other structure made from straight pieces. They are also the only known structure built that increases in strength as the size of the building is increased. As you can see with the geodesic dome, R. Buckminster Fuller was interested in ideas that maximized efficiency in design by ”doing more with less.”