Your private sky
Subtitle: discourse
By: R. Buckminster Fuller ; edited by Joachim Krausse, Claude Lichtenstein.
Contributors: Krausse, Joachim.; Lichtenstein, Claude.
Publisher: Lars Müller; Museum of Design; Lars Muller Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baden, Switzerland; Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Fuller, R. Buckminster -- 1895-; Technology -- Philosophy; Technology and civilization; Design
Description: "In this companion volume to the "visual reader" Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller; The Art of Design Science Fuller is heard primarily through his own writings, in which he expounded his world view and his ideas about design. 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 The book collects important unpublished works and key texts that are not easily available, choosing from all phases of his creativity, and places them in the context of an art and science of design,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 The book also includes a facsimile of his previously unpublished basic text on the construction of geodesic domes, "Noah's Ark #2.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.