Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, inventor, engineer, writer and philosopher. He is most famous as the inventor of the geodesic dome.
Fuller felt architecture should be ecological and therefore opposed waste and superficial styling.
John Denver's song "What One Man Can Do" is a tribute to Fuller. In dEUS' song The Architect, samples of Fuller's voice are included.
Frank Zappa and Buckminster Fuller
In Data For Sensitive or Critical-sensitive Position (1967), Zappa named Buckminister Fuller one of his "favorite contemporary musicians" (despite the fact that Fuller never composed or recorded music).
"I go along with Fuller's theories on waste matter – and I think the first waste that we should put to use is the American politician." - Frank Zappa, Interview by John Lannan, SoCal, 3 March 1969. [1].
