Felicity D. Scott

Architecture professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP); founding co-editor of Grey Room.

Felicity D. Scott is a professor of architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published by MIT Press since 2000. Her book Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism was published by MIT Press in 2007. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of architecture, media, technology, and politics, with particular attention to the ways architectural discourse engages questions of political agency and social transformation.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Scott contributed the essay "Fluid Geographies: Politics and the Revolution by Design" to New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller. The essay revisits the 1960s and 1970s, when R. Buckminster Fuller experienced a surge of popularity with the counterculture, examining how Fuller's World Game and his domes provided hope and inspiration for disenchanted youth — though these ultimately failed to resolve the political and social realities that were the real source of their discontent. Scott's work brings a critical political dimension to the understanding of Fuller's legacy, examining the gap between his techno-utopian promises and the material conditions they addressed.

See Also

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller — the collection she contributed to
• Reinhold Martin — fellow Columbia GSAPP professor and co-founder of Grey Room

Sources

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (source reference) — Zotero record for the anthology