Defining the Urban Condition: Accelerating Change in the Geography of Power

The Comparative Genius of Leonardo de Vinci and R. Buckminster Fuller

International Proceedings

Author(s): John Lance

Without question Leonardo da Vinci has been recognized as the Renaissance genius of the fifteenth century due to the various inventions and structures he designed during his lifetime. The twentieth century is rapidly reaching its conclusion and it appears that the outstanding inventor of this time period has been R. Buckminster Fuller due to his inventions in geodesic domes and tensegrity structures. The author wishes to compare the philosophical and intellectual inventions of these two creative giants and arrive at conclusions based upon their methods of creativity, problem solving and the similarity of their physical or mechanical explorations.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.80

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