Author: Lloyd Sieden
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780738203799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. In this inspiring account of Fuller's life and legacy, Lloyd Steven Sieden brings new light to Fuller's belief system and recognizes his many contributions to humanity.
Author: Jonathon Keats
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019933823X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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You Belong to the Universe documents Buckminster Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Jonathon Keats sets out to restore Fuller's good name, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context. Keats argues that Fuller's life and ideas, namely doing "the most with the least" is now more relevant than ever as we struggle to meet the demands of an exploding world population with finite resources.
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110859572
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Lloyd Steven Sieden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611250091
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Known as a Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century, engineer, designer, inventor, and futurist Dr. R. Buckminster Bucky Fuller had a keen awareness that we re all in this together. Understanding that humans don t have a clue about how to operate our fragile Spaceship Earth, Buckminster provided insightful design science solutions to our most challenging issues, including war, overpopulation, housing, increasing inflation, health care, the energy crisis, and much more. For all its genius, Fuller s legacy has yet to be fully discovered. Noted Fuller expert L. Steven Sieden together with Gary Zukav, John Robbins, Lynne Twist, Jean Houston, and many other notable individuals offer inspiring quotations and explanations that make Fuller's life more understandable and accessible. They preserve a voice that calls upon each of us to shift our intellectual and technological resources from creating weaponry to creating sustainability. Winner 2013 COVR award - Gold"
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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One of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint for the future. This comprehensive volume is composed of essays derived from the lectures he gave all over the world during the 1960’s. Fuller’s thesis is that humanity – for the first time in its history – has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. “This is what man tends to call utopia. It’s a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe — the alternative of which is oblivion.” R. Buckminster Fuller. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Lloyd Steven Seiden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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A sympathetic, even advocatory, account of the life and work of the designer, engineer, and architect, interpreting his creations as visible models of his philosophy. Well illustrated, including diagrams showing the principles of his designs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author: Hsiao-yun Chu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804752095
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 0312351941
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny. This book is a modern allegory - his long-gestated myth-of the villainy of capitalism and the fecklessness of classic economics. For Fuller, the academic discipline of economics is irrelevant since it derives from an invalid assumption of scarcity. In fact, he has long argued that future historians of our era may subsume our business practices as a branch of mythology; thus it is not surprising that the word economic appears nowhere in his text. Fuller’s myth is no idle fairy tale, since he faces his question - the question of a technological imperative which only he could raise with the deadly seriousness of satire. That question is: Can our system of national political sovereignties and corporate profits survive the inevitable technology revolution required to obviate wars by effecting a worldwide rise in the standard of living. One of the functions of myth is to resolve contradictions in our culture. Grunch of Giants portrays the rising of multinational corporations in the paradoxical role of function both as the epitome of capitalistic selfishness and as the inadvertent vehicle for the dissolution of national political boundaries - the last deterrent to a one-world economy. The result is more subversive of the property and profit values of the capitalist system than anything dreamed of since Karl Marx. —E.J. Applewhite, collaborator with RBF on Synergetics and Synergetics 2, author of Cosmic Fishing: A Memoir of Working With R. Buckminster Fuller
