Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New MillenniumThomas T. K. Zung Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best known Americans of the twentieth century. Often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and called "the planet's friendly genius," he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "spaceship earth," and an educator without parallel. Yet, most of his books are out of print today. To remedy this situation, his longtime friend and architectural partner, Thomas Zung, has compiled a Bucky Fuller reader. This anthology consists of chapters selected from twenty of Bucky's many books, each with a new Introduction by such notables as Arthur C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Dr. Martin Meyerson, Sir Harold W. Kroto, Arthur L. Loeb, E. J. Applewhite, and others. Altogether, this book provides an overview of a remarkable intellectual career and the best possible introduction to the man and his thought. Bucky Fuller was one of the most original thinkers and builders that America has ever produced, and this book makes his work available to a new generation at the beginning of a new millennium. |
Contents
Richard Buckminster Fuller by architect Lord Norman Foster | 1 |
The Path of Social Evolution by Barbara Marx Hubbard | 9 |
Buckminster Fuller and the Game of the World by Medard Gabel | 122 |
The Fountains of Paradise by Sir Arthur C Clarke | 128 |
Continuity Discreteness and Resolution | 185 |
Explorations | 191 |
Black Mountain College by Ruth Asawa | 201 |
Macro Micro and Nanoscale Engineering | 226 |
The Future According to Fuller by Steve Forbes | 265 |
Buckys Apologia by Michael Denneny | 279 |
R Buckminster Fuller Archives by Professor Emer | 319 |
The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene by E J Applewhite | 337 |
Ekistics and R Buckminster Fuller by Herbert E Strawbridge | 344 |
Frank Lloyd Wright and Nine Chains to the Moon | 366 |
Fullers Last Diary Entry | 373 |
Books by R Buckminster Fuller | 381 |
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