Collection Online
Search the Collection 搜索M+藏品
M+, Hong Kong, © The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
On View
East Galleries, 215
R. Buckminster Fuller 巴克敏斯特．富勒
Complex of Jitterbugs 吉特巴複合體
1948, made 1976
Inventor and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller dedicated his life to exploring prefabricated and lightweight structural systems, which he believed would be key to sustainable human development in the future. He concluded that a sphere made of triangular panels would have the maximum strength and spatial efficiency, and most famously expressed this concept in geodesic domes. Fuller created Complex of Jitterbugs, each triangular unit of which can expand and retract with the turn of a dial, in order to challenge the idea that architecture must be solid and static. This concept of dynamic architecture influenced a range of later practices and was essential to Fuller’s work to conceive of buildings and cities as reconfigurable units that respond to change.
Loading