Cite: Pereira, Matheus."Tensegrity Structures: What They Are and What They Can Be " [Estruturas Tensegrity: o que são e o que esperar delas] 03 Jun 2018. ArchDaily.

In this April 18 1979 photo, R. Buckminster Fuller holds up one of his inventions, a tensegrity sphere. The structure, made of rods and cables, ...

Tensegrity refers to the balance of pushing and pulling forces--the metal pushes, the wire pulls--that work to maintain a flexible, elastic shape. The structures collapse under a weight, and snap ...

Buckminster Fuller has been featured in articles for The Guardian, Arte Fuse and LA Weekly. The most recent article is SKD │ Archive of the Avant-Gardes Opens "Building Worlds. Visionary Architecture ...

In 1975 Buckminster Fuller first defined the term tensegrity, a portmanteau of "tensional integrity." It refers to structural systems that derive their stability from various elements acting ...

But tensegrity has been used many times in real life since the 1960s, ... Fuller wasted no time imagining what types of buildings and cities he could build using tensegrity.

Fuller, who was not a trained architect, had countless ideas of this sort and a pithy collection of them can be seen at Edward Cella Art & Architecture through Nov. 3. R. Buckminster Fuller: ...

Tensegrity—a portmanteau of “tensional integrity”—is a structural principle that, according to Buckminster Fuller, who coined the term, calls for “continuous tension members and ...

Indeed, tensegrity is a principle employed by architects for years, ... Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, came up with the term and explained the ideas behind it in interviews.