Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

Your private sky : discourse / R. Buckminster Fuller ; edited by Joachim Krausse, Claude Lichtenstein.

Publication:

Baden, Switzerland : Lars Müller ; Zürich : Museum of Design, ©2001.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Earthwalking-Skyriding: An Invitation to Join Buckminster Fuller on a Voyage of Discovery / Joachim Krausse, Claude Lichtenstein 7 -- Fuller as a Poet of Technology: A Retrospective Appreciation / E.J. Applewhite 44 -- Influences on My Work 48 -- Lightful Houses 64 -- 4D Correspondence -- On Margaret Fuller Ossoli 77 -- On Paul Nelson 80 -- Dymaxion House: Meeting, Architectural League, New York 84 -- Nine Chains to the Moon: Excerpts -- Phantom Captain 106 -- Universal Language 112 -- Ephemerilization 115 -- Scrap-Coup d'Etat of the Random Element 117 -- Sperry Gyroscope: Theory and Practice of the Spinning Wheel 122 -- Fluid Geography 127 -- On "Profile of the Industrial Revolution" 141 -- Earth Incorporated 145 -- Synergetic Geometry -- Dymaxion Comprehensive System. Introducing Energetic Geometry 160 -- Energetic Geometry: Closest Packing of Spheres 169 -- Einstein Letter 171 -- Eureka-Eureka 174 -- Noah's Ark #2 177 -- Mast in the Earth 227 -- Tensegrity 229 -- Comprehensive Designer 243 -- Proposal to the International Union of Architects 248 -- New Forms vs. Reforms: Letter to the World Architectural Students 253 -- World Design Initiative (Mexico Lecture) 262 -- Vertical is to Live, Horizontal is to Die 280 -- Mistake Mystique 293 -- Dymaxion Artist / Elaine de Kooning 297 -- Experience and Experiencing / Allegra Fuller Snyder 302 -- Starting From Scratch: Fuller's Experimental Approach to Geometry and Structure / E.J. Applewhite 308 -- Impressum 320.

Summary:

"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 The book collects important unpublished works and key texts that are not easily available, choosing from all phases of his creativity, and places them in the context of an art and science of design,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

ISBN:

3907044940
9783907044940

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster 1895-1983
Technology Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Design.
Industrial design.
Technologie Philosophie.
Technologie et civilisation.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
Decorative arts.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Writings.

Added entries:

Krausse, Joachim.
Lichtenstein, Claude.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216378
Call No.: NA44.F967.9 Y6 2001
Status: Available