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Title:

New views on R. Buckminster Fuller / edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster--(Richard Buckminster),--1895-1983--Influence.
Engineers--United States.
Architects--United States.
Inventors--United States.

Other Authors:

Chu, Hsiao-yun.
Trujillo, Roberto G., 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-217) and index.

Contents:

Paper mausoleum : the archive of R. Buckminster Fuller / Hsiao-Yun Chu -- 1927, Bucky's annus mirabilis / Barry M. Katz -- R. Buckminster Fuller : America's last genuine utopian? / Howard P. Segal -- Thinking and building : the formation of R. Buckminster Fuller's key concepts in "lightful houses" / Joachim Krausse -- "Spirit-House" and "Steppenwolf" avant-garde : American origins in the Dymaxion house concept / Claude Lichtenstein -- Energy in the thought and design of R. Buckminster Fuller / David E. Nye -- Necessary beauty : Fuller's sumptuary aesthetic / Jonathan Massey -- Backyard landing : three structures by Buckminster Fuller / Maria Gough -- R. Buckminster Fuller : a technocrat for the counterculture / Fred Turner -- Fluid geographies : politics and the revolution by design / Felicity D. Scott -- Fuller's futures / Reinhold Martin.

ISBN:

0804762791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804762793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804752095 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804752091 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)294935628

LCCN:

2009007192

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)