Contents
1 Buckminster Fuller
3 MARTIN PAWLEY
4How much does the building weigh?
5 D E S I G N H E R O E S
Series editor Martin Pawley
6Buckminster Fuller
7(Overleal) ‘Everything I have said to you, I have written or said before': Richard Buckminster Fuller lecturing in San Francisco. 1973.
9 Utetateter Fuller
10 MARTIN PAWLEY
11 WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE
1213TAPLINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK
14 Fitz Memorial Library
15 Endicott College
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17 First published in the United States in 1990 by Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., New York, New York
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19 The illustrations in this book are copyright to the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and may not be copied, photographed or reproduced without the prior permission of the copyright owners.
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23 Copyright ľ Martin Pawley 1990
24 Illustrations copyright ľ The Buckminster Fuller Institute, 1990
25 ISBN 0 8008 1116 X
26 Design by Elizabeth van Amerongen Cover design by the Armelle Press Manufactured in the United Kingdom For more information concerning Buckminster Fuller please contact the Buckminster Fuller Institute, 1743 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90035. Phone (213) 837 7710
27 contents
28297 Heroes of the Design Century
30 12 Introduction
31 17 Brief Encounters
32 33 The Year of Silence
33 57 Dymaxion Cars
34 85 House of the Century
35 115 Triumph of the Domes
36 147 The Giant Projects
37 181 Ephemeralization and History
38 190 Bibliography