New views on R. Buckminster Fuller
By: edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo.
Contributors: Chu, Hsiao-yun.; Trujillo, Roberto G., 1951-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780804752091; 9780804762793
Subjects: Fuller, R. Buckminster -- 1895-1983 -- Influence; Engineers -- United States; Architects -- United States; Inventors -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paper mausoleum : the archive of R. Buckminster Fuller / Hsiao-Yun Chu; title: 1927, Bucky's annus mirabilis / Barry M. Katz; title: R. Buckminster Fuller : America's last genuine utopian? / Howard P. Segal; title: Thinking and building : the formation of R. Buckminster Fuller's key concepts in "lightful houses" / Joachim Krausse; title: "Spirit-House" and "Steppenwolf" avant-garde : American origins in the Dymaxion house concept / Claude Lichtenstein; title: Energy in the thought and design of R. Buckminster Fuller / David E. Nye; title: Necessary beauty : Fuller's sumptuary aesthetic / Jonathan Massey; title: Backyard landing : three structures by Buckminster Fuller / Maria Gough; title: R. Buckminster Fuller : a technocrat for the counterculture / Fred Turner; title: Fluid geographies : politics and the revolution by design / Felicity D. Scott; title: Fuller's futures / Reinhold Martin.