Contents
1 CONSULTANTS :
2 Loy Fook Lee, Master of Architecture Degree, Columbia University. Richard M. Haynes, Assistant Professor, Division of Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction;
3 Director of the Office of Field Experience and Teacher Placement, School of Education and Psychology, Western Carolina University.
4 TEXT AND DIAGRAM CREDITS:
5 Pp. 8–9 (poems): Courtesy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Los Angeles; p.
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(poem); From Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe, by Alden Hatch. Copyright ©1974
by Alden Hatch. Reprinted by permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.; p. 115 (diagram based on
illustration by Hugh Kenner in Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller, by Hugh Kenner, ©
1973, Morrow): Permission granted by Hugh Kenner; p.
6 138 (quotations in 1st paragraph): Permission granted by The Futurist-, p. 141: Reprinted by permission; © 1983, The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
7 PHOTOGRAPH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
8 Buckminster Fuller Institute, Los Angeles, ©1980: p. 78; Buckminster Fuller Institute, Los Angeles, © 1960, The Estate of Buckminster Fuller: pp. 10, 25, 31, 42, 74; James Mason/Black Star: frontispiece; St. Louis Post-Dispatch: pp. 122–123;
9 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: pp. 131, 139; Union Tank Car Co.: pp. 118–119; UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos: pp. 82–83, 90–91, 105, 126–127.
10 SERIES AND COVER DESIGN:
R studio T-Raiil Rodriguez and Rebecca Tachna
11 ART DIRECTOR:
12 Linda Huber
13 MANAGING EDITOR :
Nancy Furstinger
14 PROJECT EDITOR:
Richard G. Gallin
15 PHOTO RESEARCH:
16 Omni-Photo Communications, Inc.
17 Copyright © 1990 by Gallin House Press, Inc.
18 All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
19 Published by Silver Burdett Press, Inc., a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Englewood
Cliffs, NJ 07632
Manufactured in the United States of America.
20 ISBN 0-382-09967-2 (Lib. ed.)
21 1098765432 1
22 ISBN 0-382-09972-9 (pbk.)
23 10–987654321
24 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
25 Potter, Robert R.
26 Buckminster Fuller / Robert R. Potter
27 p. cm.—(Pioneers in change)
Includes bibliographical references.
2829Summary: A biography of an outstanding creative thinker and designer whose inventive technological expressions were attempts to make life easier and more comfortable for people while still maintaining a close relationship with nature.
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- Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895——Juvenile literature.
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- Architecture—United States—Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Inventors—
United States—Biography—Juvenile literature. [1. Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard
30 Buckminster), 1895—. 2. Inventors. 3. Architects.]
31 I. Title. II. Series.
32 TAI40.F9P68 1990
33 620’.0092—dc20
34 [B] 90–34187
35 [92] CIP
36 AC