| SELECTED IDEAS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER |
| REVERSE SUSPENSION BUILDINGS |
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In 1964 R. Buckminster Fuller patented a method of designing buildings using, in effect, reverse suspension. |
| He used the term "Aspension". | |
| Instead of hanging "down" (in), the components hang "up" (out)! | |
| This method cuts weight
&
costs & makes the structure earthquake resistant. |
| Richard Buckminster Fuller | John McHale, ed | Architectural Design (mag) | page 313 | 07-01-61 |
| Ideas and Integrities | Buckminster Fuller | book | page 95 | 1963 |
| Aspension | " | " | US Patent 3,139,957 | 07-07-64 |
| Geodesics | Edward Popko | publisher? | figures # 53-4 | 1968 |
| The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller | Fuller & Marks | book | illustrations 262-63 | 1973 |
| The Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller | Donald W Robertson | " | pages 69-75 | 1974 |
| Inventions | Buckminster Fuller | " | pages 201-13 | 1983 |
| Cable Domes | John Free | Popular Science (US mag) | pages 88-89 | 11-01-87 |
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