The Nesto Gallery's first show of the year, Buckminster Fuller/Shaoji Sadao Partners in Design opens Friday night, Sept. 14 from 6:00-8:00 PM. The show commemorates one of Milton's most famous graduates, R. Buckminster Fuller, Class of 1913. "Bucky" as he was known to his close friends, spent his life as a designer, philosopher and visionary. Most readily identified as the inventor of the geodesic dome, he held over 200 patents, wrote many books, invented a new branch of mathematics, and lectured around the world. Fuller grew up in the town of Milton near Turner's Pond, was quarterback of the football team, and was devoted to the Academy, at which he spoke twice before his death in the 1980's. He was an important man who believed passionately that the world's problems could be solved by "design" - the only choice for the humane operation of "Spaceship Earth."

Nesto Gallery
Click here for a full list of the 2001 - 2002 Nesto Gallery exhibitions

Other Buckminster Fuller Web References:
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ
Chris Fearnley's List of Buckminster Fuller References
Electric Encyclopedia's R Buckminster Fuller site
http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/bucky.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/bucky/