Buckminster fuller biography book

  • This biography is a provocative and inspiring depiction of a relentless, determined, American visionary.
  • One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the.
  • 1970s Bucky – a Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller, by Hugh Kenner.
  • Books About Fuller

    1960s

    R. Buckminster Fuller by John McHale. George Brazillier, Inc., New York. c1962, hardback.

    Wizard of the Dome: R. Buckminster Fuller, Designer for the Future, by Sidney Rosen. Little, Brown & Company, Boston. c1969, hardback.

    1970s

    Bucky – a Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller, by Hugh Kenner. William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York. ©1973, hardback; paperback.

    Mind’s Eye of Buckminster Fuller, by Donald W. Robertson. Vantage Press, Inc., New York. ©1974, hardback.

    Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe, by Alden Hatch. Crown Publishers, New York. ©1974, hardback.

    Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller, by E.J. Applewhite. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York, c1977 hardback.

    Pilot for Spaceship Earth, by Athena V. Lord. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York. ©1978, hardback.

    1980s

    Buckminster Fuller: an Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario, by Robert Snyder. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ©1980, hardback.

    Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining, by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. The Buckminster Fuller Institute, Philadelphia. ©1982, paperback.

    Inventions, the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller. St. Martin’s Pre

    Inventor of representation Future: Picture Visionary Selfpossessed of Buckminster Fuller

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  • Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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    Author: Alec Nevala-Lee

    Format: Paperback / softback

    Number of Pages: 672


    One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the Week From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems using a radically unconventional set of strategies, which he based on a mystical conception of the universe's geometry. His views on sustainability, as embodied in the image of Spaceship Earth, convinced him that it