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Skip to content New Views on R. New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller. In this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.

Richard Buckminster Fuller Basic Biography. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Stefan Huebner. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. This book looks again at how the World Game has been played, focusing on its architecture, design, and gameplay. Such a study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, game studies, media studies, architecture, and the environmental humanities.

Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. Essays by other authors supplement and augment the selection of Fuller texts.

The book collects important unpublished works and key texts that are not easily available, choosing from all phases of his creativity, and places them in the context of an art and science of design, in the sense implied in Fuller's term design science. The selection of texts provides access to Fuller's central concepts at the point they were first developed and presents them in their earliest valid formulation.

The book thus affords a genuine look into his workshop of ideas. The volume includes texts that have become classics in the philosophy of design: Fuller's first essay, "Lightful Houses," the lecture on his Dymaxion House, the first papers on synergetic geometry, and the tensegrity essay.

The book also includes a facsimile of his previously unpublished basic text on the construction of geodesic domes, "Noah's Ark 2. Fuller's original techniques. Architect, mathematician, engineer, inventor, visionary humanist, educator, inspirational orator, and bestselling author, R. Buckminster Fuller has been rightly called "the 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci.

Buckminster Fuller for more than three decades. Drawing extensively on Fuller? In the space between lines, models, words, and patents, it traces his ambition to measure physical experience in an ever- expanding pattern of relationships, while coordinating these into a conceptual network of words and concepts that shape the basis for his thinking.

Advocating a multidisciplinary and political perspective, Fuller? This volume details Fuller's work in vivid full colour, with hundreds of arresting and detailed illustrations spanning his entire career, demonstrating that his ideas are more relevant with every passing day. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication.

Long out of print, they are now being published again, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and interpretation of his visionary ideas. How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation?

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