Main entry:

Rosen, Sidney.

Title & Author:

Wizard of the dome : R. Buckminster Fuller, designer for the future / by Sidney Rosen.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown & Co., [1969]

Description:

x, 189 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186).
A beginning -- Gorwing up in New ENgland -- First failures, first successes -- A year of decision -- THe birth of dymaxion -- Great ideas, but bad luck -- The corncrib that became a house -- The house that failed -- Nature's own geometry -- Geodesic domes for the world -- Success at sixty -- Bucky Fuller, poet an dprophet -- Living space for World Man -- The end -- but not the end -- Bibliography.

Summary:

"From Afghanistan to Montreal, from St. Louis to Honolulu, people have seen geodesic domes in spectacular use. But the American genius who created them has become almost a legendary figure instead of a real man living and working today. Here is the inventor himself, a man with the courage of his convictions, who faced a hostile society on his own terms, and won"--from front jacket flap.

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Architects United States 20th century.
Futurologists United States 20th century.
Geodesic domes.
Architectes États-Unis 20e siècle.
Futurologues États-Unis 20e siècle.
Dômes géodésiques.
geodesic domes.
Architects.
Futurologists.
United States.
Domes
Fuller, R. Buckminster

Form/genre:

Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 77095
Call No.: W13403; ID:86-B13973
Status: Available