The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller.pdf

At the heart of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion concept is the idea that rational action in a rational world demands the most efficient overall performance per unit of input. His Dymaxion structures, the n, are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of the available technology. This book shows the practical applications of the Dymaxion concept to the world of design and industrial production. Here are explanations, diagrams, and photographs of the most important of Fuller's inventions- his Dymaxion car, the Geodesic dome, the Dymaxion bathroom, etc.
This book gives a clear verbal and pictorial explanation of Fuller's anticipatory design science. It is also a concise hi story of the development of his ideas, from the ea rly 1920s to the time when Fuller finally gained the international recognition he deserved. The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller shows how often this visionary thinker, though considered "loony" in previous decades, was proved to be right with the passage of time.
R. Buckminster Fuller is the world-famous inventor of the geodesic dome. His distinguished career has taken him all over "spaceship Earth", where he has been consultant to governmental and private agencies, and advisor to a wide range of intellectual and political leaders. He has been Distinguished University Professor at Southern Illinois University since 1959. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; and former Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Among his recent honors are the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, the 1968 Gold Medal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Institute of Architects' 1970 Gold Medal.
Robert Marks is a personal friend of Bucky Fuller's, and an enthusiastic advocate and interpreter of his structural concepts. Marks' magazine and newspaper articles show that he recognized the social and economic importance of Mr. Fuller's ideas during the years when he was generally regarded as an impractical dreamer.

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