An equal yet opposite force in Noguchi’s life was Buckminster Fuller – the American architect/designer, systems theorist and inventor of the Geodesic Dome, a spherical structure celebrated for its strength and lightness, that is not dissimilar in spirit to the Akari. Noguchi collaborated with Buckminster Fuller in the 1930s, at which point his work was heavily influenced by the amazing progress being made in the field of science and technology. Like the architect, designer or scientist, Noguchi looked for the same sense of efficiency in his own work. Stripped to the bare essentials, Noguchi explored the most elemental building blocks of our world: the atom and the single cell, the planets and stars, water and air, light and gravity.