Contents
1 New Views on
2 Buckminster Fuller
3 Edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu
4 and Roberto G. Trujillo
6New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
7New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
8 Edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo
9 Stanford University Press
10 Stanford, California
11 Stanford University Press
12 Stanford, California
13 ľ2009 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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17 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
18 New views on R. Buckminster Fuller / edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo.
19 p. cm.
20 Includes bibliographical references and index.
21 ISBN 978–0-8047–5209–1 (cloth : alk. paper)-ISBN 978–0-8047–6279–3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
22 1. Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895–1983—Influence. 2. Engineers—United States. 3. Architects—United States. 4. Inventors—United States. I. Chu, Hsiao-yun. II. Trujillo, Roberto G., 1951-
23 TA14O.F9N48 2009
24 620.0092—dc22 2009007192
25 Designed by Bruce Lundquist
26 Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/15 Minion
27 Contents
29Preface Roberto G. Trujillo xi
30Introduction Hsiao-Yun Chu 1
31Paper Mausoleum: The Archive of R. Buckminster Fuller 6
32Hsiao-Yun Chu
331927, Bucky’s Annus Mirabilis 23
34Barry M. Katz
35R. Buckminster Fuller: America’s Last Genuine Utopian? 36
36Howard R Segal
37 Thinking and Building: The Formation of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Key Concepts in ‘‘Lightful Houses’’ 53 Joachim Krausse
38 ‘‘Spirit-House’’ and ‘‘Steppenwolf’’ Avant-Garde:
39 American Origins in the Dymaxion House Concept 76
40Claude Lichtenstein
41Energy in the Thought and Design of R. Buckminster Fuller 86
42David E. Nye
43Necessary Beauty: Fuller’s Sumptuary Aesthetic 99
44Jonathan Massey
45Backyard Landing: Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller 125 Maria Gough
46R. Buckminster Fuller: A Technocrat for the Counterculture 146
47Fred Turner
48Fluid Geographies: Politics and the Revolution by Design 160 Felicity D. Scott
50Reinhold Martin
52Index 219