Main entry:

López, Daniel (López Pérez), author.

Title & Author:

R. Buckminster Fuller : pattern-thinking / Daniel López-Pérez.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2020]
©2020

Description:

367 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface. Pattern-thinking in four scenes -- Lines. Cartographic and Euclidean challenges -- Energetic-synergetic geometry of RBF -- Spherical Atlas -- Pattern recognition: naturalism and organicism -- Models. Pattern-making: translating lines into models -- Programming -- Earth as a model -- World design science decade -- A legacy of design-build manuals -- Words. Synergetics -- Synergetics dictionary -- Dictionary writing -- Dictionary entries -- Writing: collective sensing and inventorying -- Patents. Inventions: lines, artifacts, definitions, and patents -- Patents: comprehensiveness in words and drawings -- Patent variations: past, present, and pending -- Patent writing: architecture and design -- RBF's Letter to "Dean X."

Summary:

"Pattern-Thinking reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller -- unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author -- as advancing contemporary models of design research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively on Fuller's archive, the book follows his unique process of translation between the physical and conceptual dimensions of design, to redefine our understanding of the relationships between geometry, structure, language, and intellectual property. Rather than being organized around a chronology of distinct narratives, Pattern-Thinking follows these parallel explorations as the basis for Fuller's artifacts and inventions. In the space between lines, models, words, and patents, it traces his ambition to measure physical experience in an ever- expanding pattern of relationships, while coordinating these into a conceptual network of words and concepts that shape the basis for his thinking. Advocating a multidisciplinary and political perspective, Fuller's transversal logic expands the knowledge base of contemporary models of design, which seek to find broader participation and to address new publics"--Publisher's description

Biographical note:

Daniel López-Pérez holds a PhD in the history and theory of architecture from Princeton University and is an Associate Professor and a founding faculty member of the Architecture Program at the University of San Diego.

ISBN:

9783037786093 (paperback)
3037786094 (paperback)

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Design.
Pattern perception.
Geometry.
Mathematics Philosophy.
Geodesic domes.
System theory.
Thought and thinking.
Industrial design.
Perception des structures.
Géométrie.
Mathématiques Philosophie.
Dômes géodésiques.
Théorie des systèmes.
Pensée.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
geometry.
geodesic domes.
thinking.

Added entries:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. Works. Selections.

Pattern-thinking : R. Buckminster Fuller

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307653
Call No.: BIB 253126
Status: Available