In 1927, jobless and distraught over the death of his daughter five years earlier, Richard Buckminster Fuller contemplated suicide. Instead of killing himself, he decided to live the rest of his life as an experiment for the benefit of humankind. He re-christened himself "Guinea Pig B" (B stood for B

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The short-lived partnership between the British Richard Rogers and the Italian Renzo Piano is most well-known for its 1977 design of the Centre Pompidou, the modern art museum in Paris. Before teaming up, Rogers was involved in another architectural partnership called Team 4, while Piano taught at th

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