From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms spaceship earth and synergetics, the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing onhis wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought.The book chronicles Fuller s profound ...
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From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms spaceship earth and synergetics, the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (18951983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing onhis wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought.The book chronicles Fuller s profound, often prophetic contributions, including his environmentally sensitive building designs. The essays illuminate the underappreciated thematic interactions of many sculptors, painters, musicians, and architects with this self-described comprehensive anticipatory design scientist, including contemporary artists wrestling with Fuller s legacy today.Reproductions of original drawings and modelsincluding those for Fuller s 4D house, Wichita House, the Montreal Expo dome, and the sole extant Dymaxion carplus a reprinted 1966 "New Yorker" profile on Fuller by Calvin Tomkins, complete the fascinating tribute."
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Very Good. 2008. Paperback. Paperback with dust jacket. Quarto. xiii & 258 pp. Profusely illustrated. Some shelf wear to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Architecture & Urban Design).
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New. 0300126204. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 272 pp. With 240 ills. (158 col. ). 28 x 23 cm. --with a bonus offer--
