James Ward

Editor (with descriptive commentary) of The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (Garland, 1985) — the four-volume primary-source catalog that reproduces Fuller's drawings and designs from the Dymaxion experiments of the 1920s through the geodesic revolution to 1983.

Ward's four volumes constitute the most comprehensive documentary record of Fuller's design output: the Stockade system, the 4D and Dymaxion houses, the Dymaxion transports, the geodesic domes and radomes, the Ford Rotunda dome, the Expo 67 pavilion, and much more, each reproduced with Ward's interpretive descriptions. It is the scholarly counterpart to Robert Marks's earlier single-volume survey.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Ward is the cataloguer of record for Fuller's designs — the editor who organized and described the primary-source drawings into a definitive multi-volume reference.

See Also

• Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (Set) (Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller) — the four-volume catalog he edited
• Robert Marks (Robert Marks) — author of the earlier single-volume Dymaxion World survey

Sources

• Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (Set) (source reference) — the work attributing authorship