Main entry:

Wigley, Mark, author.

Title & Author:

Buckminster Fuller Inc. : architecture in the age of radio / Mark Wigley.

Publication:

Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015]

Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Broadcasting Shelter 13 -- Radio Man 18 -- The Wireless Avant-Garde 30 -- Invisible Empires Of The Air 38 -- What Is A House? 49 -- Radiation Cloud 57 -- The Human Beam 65 -- Pipeless Dreams 75 -- Intestinal Mobility 81 -- Closed-Circuit Architecture 89 -- The Fuller Bowl 94 -- Cleaning The Architect 108 -- Bathroom Brain 119 -- Liquidity Crisis 124 -- The Plastic Line 131 -- Bubbletopia 134 -- Inhabiting The Sky 146 -- Radar Camp 155 -- Migrating Mirage 167 -- Accelerating The Dome 178 -- Inside The Eyeball 193 -- Polymer Delirium 204 -- The Architecture Of Anticipation 212 -- Planetary Homeboy 221 -- Blueprint For A Cloud 225 -- Expanded Television 236 -- Prototype Planets 241 -- The Art Of The Invisible 252 -- Technicolor Surveillance 258 -- The Ultimate Window 262 -- The Architecture Of The Brain 271 -- Network Fever 279 -- Dancing Gurus 281 -- Animate Nets 286 -- Floating Amplifier 292 -- From Scan To Plan 298 -- Digital Traffic 304 -- The Biology Of Information 308 -- Nerve Design 312 -- Invisible Pictures 317 -- Unsettlement 324.

Summary:

Bucky Inc offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architec-ture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnet-ic spectrum. His buildings were delicate mobile instruments for accessing the invisible universe of overlapping signals. Every detail was understood as a way of tuning into hidden waves. Architecture was built in, with, for and as radio. Bucky Inc. rethinks the legacy of one of the key protagonists of the twentieth-century. It draws extensively on Fuller's archive to follow his radical thinking from toilets to telepathy, plastic to prosthetics, and data to deep-space. It shows how the critical arguments and material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century wereoverlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783037784280 (pbk.)
3037784288 (pbk.)

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Fuller, R. Buckminster.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster 1895-1983
Fuller, Richard Buckminster, 1895-1983 Critique et interprétation.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Visionary architecture United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture visionnaire États-Unis.
Architecture History United States 20th century.
Architecture.
Visionary architecture.
Utopies architecturales 20e siècle.
Ondes radioélectriques Effets de l'environnement.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291512
Call No.: BIB 235199
Status: Available