Buckminster Fuller

In 1928 the American architect Buckminster Fuller put forward a proposal for a lightweight, prefabricated multi-storey apartment tower: the originality of his proposal was that it was sufficiently light to be delivered anywhere in the world by Zeppelin.
That many of Buckminster Fuller's schemes remained dreams overlooks his importance as a teacher and thinker about architecture and urbanism, and his concern with the environment and the role of technology in improving the quality of life, mark him out as a man before his time.