Shoji Sadao

Shoji Sadao, "Executive Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc. from 1991-2003, architect Shoji Sadao collaborated with both R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi on many important projects. Sadao met Fuller while studying architecture at Cornell University, and it was Fuller who introduced him to Noguchi. Shoji Sadao began working with Fuller in 1954, and in 1965 formed Fuller and Sadao, P.C., whose first project was the large geodesic dome for the U.S. Pavilion at EXPO 67 in Montreal."

• Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute