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Snelson, Kenneth

Read here about Kenneth Snelson, an inventor of tensegrity and the world's leading sculptor of tensegrity objets d'art.

Kenneth Snelson (1927 - 2016) was a contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works, composed of flexible and rigid components, are arranged according to the idea of tensegrity. He invented tensegrity while studying with Fuller at Black Mountain College.

Snelson's work is essential study for any explorer of tensegrity. Just viewing his sculptures has been proven to inspire people to new insights into the tensegrity nature of the world. Both Ingber and Levin credit viewing Snelson's Needle Tower to inspiring them in this way.

Snelson was born in Pendleton, Oregon in 1927. He studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at the Black Mountain College, and with Fernand Léger in Paris. His sculpture and photography have been exhibited at over 25 one-man shows in galleries around the world including the structurally seminal Park Place Gallery in New York in the 60's. Snelson has also done research on the shape of the atom. He live

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Kenneth Snelson

American contemporary sculptor and photographer (1927 - 2016)

Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works, exemplified by Needle Tower, are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression.

Snelson said his former professor Buckminster Fuller took credit for Snelson's discovery of the concept that Fuller named tensegrity.[1] Fuller gave the idea its name, combining 'tension' and 'structural integrity.' Kārlis Johansons had exhibited tensegrity sculptures several years before Snelson was even born. The height and strength of Snelson's sculptures, which are often delicate in appearance, depend on the tension between rigid pipes and flexible cables.

Biography

Snelson was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1927. He studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at the Black Mountain College,[2] and with Fernand Léger in Paris. His sculpture and

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