Shoji Sadao (貞尾 昭二, January 1927 – November 3, 2019) was a Japanese American architect, best known for his work and collaborations with R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.

[2] Buckminster Fuller was Sadao’s instructor while studying architecture at Cornell University, where they first met in the early 1950s.

[3] In 1954, Sadao spent the year using his expertise as a cartographer to hand draw the Dymaxion Airocean World Map, which was his first collaboration with Fuller.

The complex was designed to accommodate one million citizens in 300,000 apartment units and included a huge interior harbor.

[7] While working with lighting designer Edison Price in 1959, Sadao assisted Noguchi with the production of his folded aluminum sculpture at the Stable Gallery.