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.

Secondary literature

• E. J. Applewhite Cosmic Fishing: An account of writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller. 1977 (ISBN 0025027107)
• Martin Pawley Buckminster Fuller. 1991 (ISBN 080081116X), offers an architectural critic's assessment of Fuller's ideas and projects.
• A Fuller Explanation by Amy C. Edmondson offers a discussion of his work in geometry and systems.
• Buckminster Fuller also appears as a character in Paul Wühr's book "Das falsche Buch".
• His former student J. Baldwin wrote BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today 1997 (ISBN 0471198129).
• Lloyd Sieden Buckminster Fuller's Universe, His Life and Work. 1989 (ISBN 0738203793), explores Fuller's personal life, his beliefs and drives.
• {{Book reference | Author=Erle, Schuyler; Gibson, Rich; & Walsh, Jo | Title=Mapping Hacks | Publisher=Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. | Year=2005 | ID=ISBN 0596007035}} Preface dedicates book to Bucky and relates the potential of networked virtual globes to Bucky's Geoscope.