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B. Fuller (1895-1983) war einer der einflussreichsten technologischen Visionäre dieses Jahrhunderts. Als Architekt, Ingenieur, Unternehmer und Poet war er ein Selfmademan typisch amerikanischen Zuschnitts. Als Technologe mit der Phantasie eines Dichters, war er ein Aussenseiter, der bereits in den 30erjahren eine Theorie der Umweltkontrollen entwickelte ("more with less", "how to make the world work") und die globale Vernetzung des Internet vorwegnahm. Schlagworte unserer Zeit wie "think global - act local", "Raumschiff Erde" od. "Synergetik" gehen auf ihn als Urheber zurück.

Dieses visuelle Lesebuch präsentiert Fullers Schaffen als fulminanten Ausdruck eines bedingungslos optimistischen Technokraten, dessen Vision des führerlosen "Raumschiffs Erde" ihn veranlasst, auf verschiedenen Gebieten konstruktiver Gestaltung Prinzipien der Wirkungsmaximierung zu untersuchen.

Die Publikation lässt seine poetischen Manifeste ebensowenig ausser acht wie seine für die technologische Entwicklung in diesem Jahrhundert massgebliche Forschung und Erfindung auf dem Gebiet der Mathematik, der Konstruktion und der Kommunikation.

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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.
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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

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