Editing Buckminster Fuller (section)

== In popular culture ==
Fuller is quoted in "The Tower of Babble" from the musical ''[[Godspell]]'': "Man is a complex of patterns and processes."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/godspell/prologuetowerofbabble.htm |title=Godspell: Prologue / Tower of Babble Lyrics |work=allmusicals.com |year=2016 |access-date=January 11, 2016}}</ref>

Belgian rock band [[Deus (band)|dEUS]] released the song ''The Architect'', inspired by Fuller, on their 2008 album ''[[Vantage Point (Deus album)|Vantage Point]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://architectura.be/nl/nieuws/deus-frontman-tom-barman-over-richard-buckminster-fuller-hij-zag-zichzelf-niet-als-architect-en-wilde-zo-niet-genoemd-worden/ |title=dEUS-frontman Tom Barman over Richard Buckminster Fuller: "Hij zag zichzelf niet als architect en wilde zo niet genoemd worden" |year=2021 |access-date=September 18, 2022}}</ref>

Indie band [[Craig Benzine|Driftless Pony Club]] titled their 2011 album ''Buckminster'' after Fuller.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/driftless-pony-club/16784455|title=Driftless Pony Club|publisher=Apple|access-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref> Each of the album's songs is based upon his life and works.

The design podcast ''[[99% Invisible]]'' (2010–present) takes its title from a Fuller quote: "Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."<ref>{{cite web|last=Belonax|first=Tim|date=January 8, 2013|title=99% Invisible: Roman Mars|url=http://designenvy.aiga.org/99-invisible-roman-mars/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221222141/http://designenvy.aiga.org/99-invisible-roman-mars/|archive-date=February 21, 2014|access-date=February 17, 2014|website=Design Envy|publisher=AIGA|language=en-US}}</ref>

Fuller is briefly mentioned in ''[[X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'' (2014) when [[Kitty Pryde]] is giving a lecture to a group of students regarding [[utopian architecture]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/buckminster-fuller-and-crystals_b_5877686?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGfxVtleTeip2GqFo89QX-y2Mu9JGHCWPY9Asl0H_KS2OMzukzFTr0NVDKys935oyU0xRVondmzpAniHFMFuDa-fn9CZvsUP4jYFZJZoMU8xJPrvXmebATsUXRlPptA_HF4QiwObcHPB5uxpVxVnf6u_5JOjuOcygYeEVsnQ_Sjw |title=X-Men Movie: We Know the World Is Intact Because of Buckminster Fuller and Crystals. |work=[[HuffPost]] | date=November 25, 2014 |first=L. Steven |last=Sieden}}</ref>

[[Robert Kiyosaki]]'s 2009 book ''Conspiracy of the Rich''<ref>Kiyosaki, Robert. ''Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money'', Business Plus, 2009, {{ISBN|0-446-55980-6}}</ref> and 2015 book ''Second Chance''<ref>Kiyosaki, Robert. ''Second Chance: for Your Money, Your Life and Our World'', Plata Publishing, LLC, 2015, {{ISBN|978-1612680460}}</ref> both concern Kiyosaki's interactions with Fuller as well as Fuller's unusual final book, ''Grunch of Giants''.<ref>Fuller, R. Buckminster. ''Grunch of Giants'', Design Science, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1607027591}}</ref>

In ''[[The House of Tomorrow (2017 film)|The House of Tomorrow]]'' (2017), based on Peter Bognanni's 2010 novel of the same name, [[Ellen Burstyn]]'s character is obsessed with Fuller and provides retro-futurist tours of her geodesic home that include videos of Fuller sailing and talking with Burstyn, who had in real life befriended Fuller.

In ''[[The Simpsons|The Simpsons']]'' [[Treehouse of Horror]] [[Treehouse of Horror III|episode]] airing on October 29, 1992, a scan over Springfield graveyard reveals graves for American workmanship, Drexell's class, [[slapstick]], and Buckminster Fuller.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mory |first1=Justin |title=The Trivial Terrors of The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Terror III"! |url=https://www.zekefilm.org/2016/10/01/the-trivial-terrors-of-the-simpsons-treehouse-of-horror-iii/ |website=ZekeFilim |date=October 2016 |access-date=October 8, 2024}}</ref>