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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)

Autor(a) de Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

67+ Works 3,895 Membros 33 Críticas 19 Favorited

About the Author

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 mais 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 por R. Buckminster Fuller

Critical Path (1981) 672 exemplares
I Seem to Be a Verb (1970) 268 exemplares
Nine Chains to the Moon (1938) 119 exemplares
Intuition (1608) 98 exemplares
And It Came to Pass, Not to Stay (1976) 97 exemplares
Earth, Inc. (1973) 59 exemplares
The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) 45 exemplares
Humans in Universe (1983) 10 exemplares
Nine Chains to the Moon (2020) 9 exemplares
4D Time Lock (1972) 8 exemplares
Isamu Noguchi a Sculptors World (1968) 2 exemplares
Earth, Inc. (2018) 1 exemplar
Planetary Planning 1 exemplar
Sketchbook (1981) 1 exemplar
Fluid Geography (1944) 1 exemplar
Everything I Know 1 exemplar
intuition 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (1971) — Introdução, algumas edições512 exemplares
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contribuidor — 414 exemplares
Expanded Cinema (1970) — Introdução, algumas edições104 exemplares
The Futurists (1972) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World (1967) — Prefácio — 57 exemplares
Non-being and somethingness: Selections from the comic strip Inside Woody Allen (1978) — Introdução, algumas edições24 exemplares
Perspecta 11 (1967) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Nome legal
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
Outros nomes
Fuller, Buckminster
Data de nascimento
1895-07-12
Data de falecimento
1983-07-01
Localização do túmulo
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Milton, Massachusetts, USA
Local de falecimento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Locais de residência
Maine, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
North Carolina, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Educação
Milton Academy, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard University (expelled)
self-educated
Ocupações
visionary
inventor
systems theorist
architect
Relações
Fuller, Arthur Buckminster (grandfather)
Fuller, Margaret (great-aunt)
Sadao, Shoji (colleague)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1963])
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Mensa International (2nd pres.)
United States Navy (WWI)
Prémios e menções honrosas
American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983)
Humanist of the Year (1969)

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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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | Mar 23, 2021 |

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Obras
67
Also by
7
Membros
3,895
Popularidade
#6,502
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
33
ISBN
106
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
19

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