Shoji Sadao, quiet hand behind two visionaries, dies at 92
(Artdaily.org)

Shoji Sadao, an architect whose behind-the-scenes talent helped bring to life the innovations of two 20th-century visionaries, R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, died on Nov. 3 in Tokyo. He was 92. His family said the cause was heart and kidney failure. Sadao met Fuller, the noted designer, author and theorist who died in 1983, while studying at Cornell University, and the two were soon collaborating. Fuller was pursuing out-there ideas in design and architecture, and it often fell to Sadao to do the practical work of implementing them. One particularly high-profile Fuller design was the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67, the international exposition held in Montreal in 1967. It was a striking 20-story geodesic dome,