Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

male, deceased (1983)
buckyballs, Solarbuildingdesigner, Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, fullerene, architecture writer, human…industrial designer, designer
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was conc...
William McDonough

William McDonough

male
Metropolis Magazine, industrial, US$, seagram, Time Magazine, Solarbuildingdesigner
William A. McDonough (b. 1951, Tokyo, Japan) is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is...
Peter Calthorpe

Peter Calthorpe

male
Solarbuildingdesigner, Urban Planning, American urban planner, architect, urbanization, Yale University
Peter Calthorpe has been named one of twenty five "innovators on the cutting edge" by "Newsweek" magazine for his work redefining the models of...
Sim van der Ryn

Sim van der Ryn

male
Solarbuildingdesigner, University of Michigan, Kew Gardens, great neck, ann arbor, Sustainability advocate
Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in "sustainable architecture." He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's driving professional...
Steve Baer

Steve Baer

male
Solarbuildingdesigner, zome, Drop City, Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy, polyhedron, solar energy
Steve Baer is an American inventor and solar and residential designer. Baer has served on the board of directors of the U.S. Section of the...

Tom Bender

male
Solarbuildingdesigner, RAIN Magazine, architecture writer, planning, Sustainability advocate, appropriate technology
Tom Bender began to make his mark in the early 1970s as an architect, author, and strategic planner. He has since been visible also as a writer in...
Ken Yeang

Ken Yeang

male
Solarbuildingdesigner, Chinese Malaysian, cambridge university, Subang Jaya, Menara Mesiniaga, Skyscraper Museum
Dr. Ken Yeang is a prolific Malaysian architect and writer best known for developing environmental design solutions for high-rise buildings in the...
J. Baldwin

J. Baldwin

male, 75 years old
Solarbuildingdesigner, industrial designer, industrial design, fabrication, Fabricator, James Tennant Baldwin
James Tennant Baldwin (born 1934) (whose books and articles have been published under the names J. Baldwin, Jay Baldwin, and James T. Baldwin) is...
James Wines

James Wines

male, 77 years old
Solarbuildingdesigner, post-industrial, environmental-art, Ecological Design, Continuing, New School for Social Research
James Wines (1932-) is an American architect associated with environmental design. Wines is also an architectural and design innovator, a product...

Félix Trombe

male
solar furnace, Solarbuildingdesigner, solar power, passive solar building design, Trombe wall, French
Felix Trombe was a French engineer. He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his...