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Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller sought out long-term, technology-led solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His prodigious creative output-from visionary architectural works and experimental structures to expressive drawings and poetic musings-foreshadowed today's green design and prefab housing movements. R.Buckminster Fuller: World Man documents his never-before-published 1966 Kassler lecture at Princeton University School of Architecture. Delivered at the height of his career (Fuller had appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1964), he used the lecture to reflect on and synthesize his most significant concepts. In addition to a faithful facsimile of the lecture's typewritten transcript, the book includes an introductory essay on Fuller's work, a glossary of key terms and phrases, and an interview with Robert Geddes, the dean responsible for bringing Fuller to teach and lecture at the school.
Contents
Table of ContentsStan Allen; Introduction: Fuller in Context; Daniel Lopez-Perez; Lecture: "World Man"; R. Buckminster Fuller; The transcript for the 1966 lecture addresses issues of design and process, and the interactions of man with the universe. He; exalts man's capacity for inventiveness, and the interplay of the metaphysical, while questioning the rapidly industrializing; world, asserting his environmental stance.; The Bucky Fuller Glossary; R, Buckminster Fuller, edited by Daniel Lopez; This section presents some of the key terms used or coined by Fuller in the 1966 lecture, placing them in the context of other; contemporary writings and projects by Fuller.; Archival Images; R. Buckminster Fuller and students; The images to be published here are recently retrieved from the Princeton University School of Architecture archive, and have; never been published before. These include original sketches by Fuller, as well as historic photographs of completed; structures.; Afterword: Interview; Robert Geddes, interviewed by Stan Allen.
