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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)

Autor de Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

67+ Obras 3,899 Miembros 33 Reseñas 19 Preferidas

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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, the innovative thinker, engineer, and inventor, was born July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts. Despite early failures and tragedies, including his being expelled from Harvard University twice and the death of his four-year-old daughter, Fuller went on to mostrar más achieve many successes. He is best known for inventing the geodesic dome; his design has been used in structures all over the world. Besides Harvard, Fuller also attended the U.S. Naval Academy, and was a professor at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of Synergetics: Explanations in the Geometry of Thinking, a book that discusses the utopic role technology will play in the future. Critical Path is the book Fuller felt was his most important. It outlined his plan to rejuvenate earth through the use of technology. His last book, Grunch of Giants, summarizes his most important ideas. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1968 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. In 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras de R. Buckminster Fuller

Critical Path (1981) 673 copias
I Seem to Be a Verb (1970) 268 copias
Nine Chains to the Moon (1938) 119 copias
Intuition (1608) 98 copias
Earth, Inc. (1973) 59 copias
Humans in Universe (1983) 10 copias
Nine Chains to the Moon (2020) 9 copias
4D Time Lock (1972) 8 copias
Earth, Inc. (2018) 1 copia
Sketchbook (1981) 1 copia
Fluid Geography (1944) 1 copia
intuition 1 copia

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Nombre canónico
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Nombre legal
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
Otros nombres
Fuller, Buckminster
Fecha de nacimiento
1895-07-12
Fecha de fallecimiento
1983-07-01
Lugar de sepultura
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Milton, Massachusetts, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
Maine, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
North Carolina, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Educación
Milton Academy, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard University (expelled)
self-educated
Ocupaciones
visionary
inventor
systems theorist
architect
Relaciones
Fuller, Arthur Buckminster (grandfather)
Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt)
Sadao, Shoji (colleague)
Organizaciones
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1963])
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Mensa International (2nd pres.)
United States Navy (WWI)
Premios y honores
American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Humanist of the Year (1969)
Biografía breve
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Buckminster Fuller was the second president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.

~Wikipedia

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Oh, if only we had listened to Fuller. We wouldn't be in such a mess now.
 
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mykl-s | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 25, 2023 |
This may have been cool in its day, but it comes across today as noisey, over-designed and confusing.
This book is snippets of quotes and images laid out in a "clever" design that you have to read front to back and back to front.
I think the design is a reflection of the times, the confused sixties and seventies when technology and social change were changing faster than society could keep up. Today, I think the layout just adds noise to the message.
Also, there is not much of R. Buckminster Fuller even though he is listed as the primary author.
Perhaps in context I would understand more of the humor and irony of this book, but today it is more of a curious artifact of the time when it was published.
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futureman | 4 reseñas más. | Jun 9, 2022 |
Five stars for what this book is, a short explanation of the philosophy of technical optimism of R. Buckminster Fuller.
However, Fuller writes in a dense style that is sometimes hard to read.
By the way, this is not an operating manual at all, it focuses more on concepts rather than tactics. Spoiler alert - the key is that we work together and stop creating false differences between people (nations, rich and poor, races).
 
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futureman | 7 reseñas más. | Jun 9, 2022 |
A quirky thrift store find that regularly sells for $200 a various booksellers. Nice copy, in tight condition, the title page says it all "The Most Important fact about Spaceship earth: An Instruction book didn't come with it."
 
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kaki1 | 4 reseñas más. | Mar 23, 2021 |

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