Buckminster Fuller
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Best remembered for his development of the geodesic dome (created by Carl Zeiss), R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was the consummate generalist. His research and interests ranged from architecture to energy, auto design to philosophy, geometry to poetry. Through a local collector, Powell's has acquired a significant collection of books by and about Fuller. Browse our collection here, and read an essay by Collier, Powell's Technical Books' Buckminster Fuller specialist.
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Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: Art Design Science
by  Synopsis Bucky was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of this century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, poet, he was a quintessentially American, self-made man. But he was also an out-sider: a technologist with a poet's imagination...
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Your Private Sky: Discourse
by Publisher Comments This book complements the volume R. Buckminster Fuller, Your Private Sky: Design Art Science and gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical and anthropological concepts. This poet of technology was a poet as...
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Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design
by Publisher Comments This fully-illustrated investigation of the polygon as the basic building block of nature proposes that when it is adapted to environmental structure this form will result in configurations that are naturally space and energy efficient....
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Untitled Epic Poem On the History of Industrialization
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe
by Alden Hatch
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The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball
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Inventions: The Complete Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Critical Path
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Universal Patterns: The Golden Relationship: Art, Math & Nature Book 1, 2nd Revised Edition
by Rochelle Newman and Martha Boles TOC bk. 1. Universal patterns....
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Earth, Inc.
by R. Buckminster Fuller TOC Earth, inc.--The Leonardo type.--Earthians' critical moment.--Revolution in wombland.--Inexorable evolution and human ecology.--Vertical is to live--horizontal is to die.--Go in to go out.--Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie.--Ten proposals for improving...
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And It Came To Pass- Not To Stay
by R. Buckminster Fuller TOC How little I know.--Complexion 1976.--What I am trying to do.--A definition of evolution.--"And it came to pass" (not to stay).--Soft revolution.--Ethics....
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Transportable Environments: Theory, Context, Design, and Technology: Papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 19
by Synopsis In this collection architects, designers, engineers and artists explore topics related to the generation and manifestation of temporary and transportable buildings and places. Their investigations provide an insight into the history and context of such...
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BuckyWorks :Buckminster Fuller's ideas for today
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