Buckminster Fuller


 

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, and inventor. He was also a professor at Southern Illinois University and a prolific writer.

Literature

His publications include:

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  • 4-D Timeline(1928)
  • Nine Chains to the Moon (1938)
  • Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization (1962)
  • Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to his Studies (1962, ISBN 0809301377)
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963/1969/1971, ISBN 0525474331) - online at http://www.bfi.org/operating_manual.htm
  • Your Private Sky (ISBN 3907044886)
  • Ideas and Integrities (1969, ISBN 0020926308)
  • Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity (1969, ISBN 0713901349)
  • Approaching the Benign Environment (1970)
  • I Seem to Be a Verb (1970)
  • No More Secondhand God and Other Writings
  • Intuition (1973, ISBN 0385012446)
  • Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth (1972)
  • Earth, Inc. (1973)
  • Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975, ISBN 002541870X) - online at http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html
  • Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Cosmic Fairy Tale (1975)
  • And It Came to Pass -- Not to Stay (1976, ISBN 0025418106)
  • R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (1979, ISBN 0870232762)
  • Critical Path (1981, ISBN 0312174918)
  • Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1983, ISBN 0025418807)
  • Grunch of Giants (1983, ISBN 0312351941)
  • Inventions: the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller (1983)
  • Cosmography (1992, posthumous)

~ Table of Content ~

Introduction
Major design projects
Practical achievements
Philosophy and worldview
Biography
Neologisms
Concepts and buildings
Literature
Secondary literature
Links (Fuller's design students)
External links

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