Michael John Gorman

Historian of science and science-museum director; author of Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility (Skira, 2005).

Michael John Gorman is a historian of science whose work bridges scholarship and public exhibition. He is known in the museum world as a founding director of science-and-art institutions, and among Fuller readers as the author of a richly illustrated study framing Fuller's inventions through the single organizing theme of mobility.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Gorman is the author of Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility (Skira, 2005), a study that reads R. Buckminster Fuller's career through the lens of movement and lightweight, transportable design — the Dymaxion Car, the Dymaxion House and Deployment Unit, and the geodesic dome as portable, deployable structures. Drawing on archival material and design drawings, the book presents Fuller as a designer preoccupied with doing "more with less" and with putting shelter and transport into motion, placing Gorman among the later scholarly chroniclers who interpret Fuller's legacy for a museum-going audience.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Hugh Kenner (Hugh Kenner) — fellow author-chronicler who interpreted Fuller's work for a general readership

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.