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.
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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.
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