This man designed a house that could be delivered in a helicopter-borne steel canister and then unfurled to create a silo-like roof that hung from a central mast over a circular plan.
This man was a mentor to Norman Foster, with whom he designed a never-completed subterranean theater at St. Peter's College, Oxford. This designer of the Samuel Beckett Theater taught the sculptor of Needle Tower at Black Mountain College. This man fought with his student Kenneth Snelson over whether to use the term "floating compression" or [*] "tensegrity" to refer to the strut-and-cable constructions they developed. This man designed a house that could be delivered in a helicopter-borne steel canister and then unfurled to create a silo-like roof that hung from a central mast over a circular plan. For 10 points, name this designer of the Dymaxion House, which was a predecessor of his geodesic domes.
This man was a mentor to Norman Foster, with whom he designed a never-completed subterranean theater at St. Peter's College, Oxford.
Richard Buckminster Fuller