[PDF] Basic Biography Richard Buckminster Fuller eBook

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
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Category : Architecture
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R. Buckminster Fuller kept a basic biography at his office for official purposes. This is that document.

Author : Robert Russell Potter
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780382099724

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A biography of an outstanding creative thinker and designer whose inventive technological expressions were attempts to make life easier and more comfortable for people while still maintaining a close relationship with nature.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Architecture
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One of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0020653204

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Synergetics, according to E. J. Applewhite, was Fuller's name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical models--not rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience. Description by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller

Author : Hsiao-yun Chu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0804752095

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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.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1983-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0312351941

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With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny. This book is a modern allegory - his long-gestated myth-of the villainy of capitalism and the fecklessness of classic economics. For Fuller, the academic discipline of economics is irrelevant since it derives from an invalid assumption of scarcity. In fact, he has long argued that future historians of our era may subsume our business practices as a branch of mythology; thus it is not surprising that the word economic appears nowhere in his text. Fuller’s myth is no idle fairy tale, since he faces his question - the question of a technological imperative which only he could raise with the deadly seriousness of satire. That question is: Can our system of national political sovereignties and corporate profits survive the inevitable technology revolution required to obviate wars by effecting a worldwide rise in the standard of living. One of the functions of myth is to resolve contradictions in our culture. Grunch of Giants portrays the rising of multinational corporations in the paradoxical role of function both as the epitome of capitalistic selfishness and as the inadvertent vehicle for the dissolution of national political boundaries - the last deterrent to a one-world economy. The result is more subversive of the property and profit values of the capitalist system than anything dreamed of since Karl Marx. —E.J. Applewhite, collaborator with RBF on Synergetics and Synergetics 2, author of Cosmic Fishing: A Memoir of Working With R. Buckminster Fuller

Author : Athena V. Lord
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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A biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect and inventor whose investigations into the principles of nature influenced his designs and helped revolutionize our world.

Author : Michael John Gorman
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
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Hailed as one of the greatest minds of our times, Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is known as an American visionary. Designer, architect, engineer, inventor, and philosopher, he was undeniably one of the key innovators of the 20th century.This volume provides a visually rich and complete overview of Fuller's design and architectural production, situating Fuller's projects in their historical context. The book features never-before-published material from the Fuller archives that were recently donated to Stanford University.Michael John Gorman's essay offers an in-depth analysis of Fuller's work-focusing more attention on his innovative architectural projects than to other aspects of Fuller's "design science"-as well as an interesting perspective on post-war American society and architectural culture. Chapters include concepts of Fuller's philosophy, his manifesto for mass-produced housing, the role of mobile shelter in transforming behavior, geodesic domes, and Fuller's early experiments. Fuller's achievements, astonishing design, and production are fully documented using original and often unknown archival materials.