Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science - Softcover

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037785241 ISBN 13: 9783037785249

Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, and poet, he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an outsider: a technologist with a poet’s imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties (“more with less”) and who anticipated the globalization of our planet (“think global―act local”). In light of the reawakening interest in his works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a re-edition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas, and projects, and critically deals with his ideology of “rescue through technology.”

About this title

From Library Journal:

Buckminster Fuller's talents bridged architecture, engineering, and industrial design, and his interest in prefabricated units, constructed from industrial materials, marked his designs as among the most inventive of the 20th century. In their economy and conservation of energy, his works far exceeded anything envisioned by International Style architects of his time. This volume, the result of an exhibition held at five European design museums, consists primarily of archival documentation from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Each chapter examines a design, beginning with a brief descriptive paragraph and including substantial excerpts from Fuller's lectures, manuscripts, and publications in addition to sketches, photographs, patent application drawings, and engineering drawings. The result is engaging, visually stunning, and highly informative if at times also confusing, overwrought, and breathless. Regrettably, there is some ambiguity as to which caption describes which illustration. Nevertheless, this book well complements Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller (St. Martin's, 1983). For architecture and design collections.
-Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

Fantastic, a must for designers, architects, engineers as well as artists, cartographers, mathematicians, and scientists... a superb introduction. -- Choice, June 2000

The result is an engaging, visually stunning, and highly informative. -- Library Journal, 5/1/00

This is an exuberant portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller, the visionary who exhorted us to "think global, act local" and devised the geodesic dome and the concept of Spaceship Earth. -- House + Garden

About this edition

• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3037785241
• ISBN 13: 9783037785249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Krausse Joachim, Lichtenstein Claude