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4D Time Lock
Fuller's first major publication (1928) — 200 mimeographed copies laying out his vision for industrialized,…
50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game
A 1969 World Resources Inventory volume, published with Southern Illinois University, that gathers fifty years of…
A Fuller Explanation
Amy C. Edmondson's canonical pedagogical introduction to Fuller's Synergetics (Birkhäuser, 1987; Design Science…
A Fuller View
An overview of Fuller's life and worldview organized around integrity of the individual, universal perspective, and…
American Dreamer
An essay (1987) assessing Fuller's legacy against the politics of globalization, arguing he would not endorse the way…
And It Came To Pass - Not To Stay
Fuller in poetic mode: an autobiographical disclosure of how he thinks, how he names Universe, and why words,…
Approaching the Benign Environment
A volume drawn from Auburn's Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities, with Fuller arguing for education toward…
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller (Set)
The four-volume Garland series 'The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller' — a comprehensive primary-source catalog of…
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, Vol. 1: The Dymaxion Experiment, 1926–1943
Volume One of the four-volume Garland series The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, edited with descriptions by James…
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, Vol. 2: Dymaxion Deployment, 1927-1946
Volume Two of James Ward's four-volume Garland catalog of Fuller's designs and drawings, covering the Dymaxion…
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, Vol. 3: The Geodesic Revolution, Part 1, 1947–1959
Volume Three of James Ward's four-volume Garland catalog of R. Buckminster Fuller's designs and drawings, subtitled…
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, Vol. 4: The Geodesic Revolution, Part 2, 1960-1983
The fourth and final volume of the Garland series The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, edited with descriptions by…
Becoming Bucky Fuller
A biographical account of Fuller's formative late-1920s years — the move to Chicago, the Stockade building venture, and…
Beyond the Cube
A history of polyhedra up to 1900, told as a voyage through historic objects and images of polyhedral shapes rather…
Buckminster Fuller
An autobiographical monologue/scenario assembled from film, tape, and archival material, presenting Fuller as a…
Buckminster Fuller — United States Patents
Curated, verified table of R. Buckminster Fuller's 22 own U.S. patents (1927–1983), distilled from a 645-result Google…
Buckminster Fuller Anthology
An architect-edited anthology assembled to reintroduce Fuller's thinking to a new generation after years of neglect…
Buckminster Fuller as Captain of Spaceship Earth
A 2007 scholarly article by historian Peder Anker arguing that Fuller's Navy experience shaped his 'Spaceship Earth'…
Buckminster Fuller at Home in the Universe
A biography presenting Fuller as a 'raging optimist' whose hold on the young rests on his belief in them and in…
Buckminster Fuller Inc.
A study reading Fuller through the lens of radio and electromagnetic media, arguing architecture has become a…
Buckminster Fuller Pawley
Martin Pawley's biography casting Fuller among the heroes of the design century, tracing the Dymaxion cars, the house…
Buckminster Fuller Potter
A biography of Fuller opening with his famously corrected farsighted childhood vision and following his life through…
Buckminster Fuller Starting with the Universe
Exhibition-catalog synthesis presenting Fuller as the figure who taught a fragmenting century to think in totalities.…
Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth
A 1972 Doubleday picture book pairing Fuller's spoken words (drawn from Robert Snyder's film 'Buckminster Fuller on…
Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario
Trevor Blake's 2017 magazine essay that narrates Fuller's life through his published works — a 'pendulum swing between…
Buckminster Fuller's Universe
A biography tracing Fuller's comprehensive heritage, experiential education, and lessons of love, war, and technology…
Bucky
Hugh Kenner's literary, skeptical-yet-admiring tour of Fuller, treating him as a coordinate-system thinker whose maps,…
Bucky for Beginners: Synergetic Geometry
A 1984 illustrated instructional book by Mary Laycock teaching Fuller-inspired synergetic geometry through hands-on…
BUCKY: A Fuller Future
A 2020 documentary by Noel B. Murphy presenting Fuller as the 'Grandfather of Green,' the first film in a planned…
Buckyworks
An accessible introduction (not an academic treatise) to Fuller's recurring concepts, themes, and anecdotes, written by…
Candid Conversation: The 1972 Playboy Interview
R. Buckminster Fuller's February 1972 Playboy interview — a wide-ranging, plain-language statement of his whole…
Climate & Architecture
A study of how the sun and climate should govern architectural design, treating the architect as a relentless observer…
Collaborating for Comprehensivity
Proposes 'comprehensivity' — a facility in questioning, conceptualizing, and acting to build an integrated…
Comprehensive Design Strategy (WDSD Phase II, Document 5)
Document 5 (1967) of the World Design Science Decade — the first of Phase II — by R. Buckminster Fuller. It sets out a…
Comprehensive Thinking (WDSD Phase I, Document 3)
Document 3 (1965) of the World Design Science Decade, by R. Buckminster Fuller (selected and edited by John McHale). It…
Cosmic Fishing
Applewhite's inside account of co-writing Synergetics with Fuller — the collaboration, editorial wrestling, and…
Cosmography
Fuller's last complete book links synergetics, history, and politics into a single argument: humans are not separate…
Critical Path
Fuller argues that world change depends on understanding the sequence of enabling steps — the critical path. Using…
Decentralizing Electricity Production
Dedicated to Fuller and his 'dare to be naive' inspiration, this is a book about what could happen rather than what is…
Design Science Primer: Tools for Changing the World
Medard Gabel and David Heeney's manual for learning and applying design science (2015) — a practical primer on Fuller's…
Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry
David Kruschke's hand-lettered 1975 workbook that derives the chord factors and dihedral angles of geodesic domes from…
Domebook One
Domebook One (1970) was Lloyd Kahn's Whole Earth-affiliated do-it-yourself dome-building manual, born of…
Earth, Inc
Fuller's early-to-middle-period argument that the planet should be treated as a single navigable system — a cosmic…
Education Automation
Fuller's argument that schooling should help the new life acquire the latest decontaminated information rather than…
Est
Est: The Steersman Handbook (L. Clark Stevens, Bantam, 1971) is a counterculture cybernetics manifesto in which 'est'…
Everything I Know
Transcripts of Buckminster Fuller's extended 'Everything I Know' lecture sessions, an autobiographical,…
From the Library of RBF
A catalog of more than two hundred volumes from Fuller's working library — many inscribed by friends and colleagues,…
Fuller Speak
A semiotic reading of Fuller's design work, arguing that early in his career he created a new sign system for…
Fuller's Earth
A memoir-and-dialogue book built around a recorded conversation between the eighty-five-plus-year-old Fuller and a…
Geodesic Math and How to Use It
A technical manual for calculating geodesic and tensegrity structures — shell-like forms that hold themselves up…
Grunch of Giants
Fuller's late polemic recasting the multinational corporation as GRUNCH — the Gross Universal Cash Heist — a faceless…
Guinea Pig B
Fuller's late first-person account of his life as a deliberate experiment — naming himself 'Guinea Pig B' to test what…
Humans in Universe
A late conversation between the eighty-seven-year-old Fuller and co-author Anwar Dil, exploring how Fuller perceives…
I Seem to Be a Verb
Fuller's experimental 1970 Bantam book, made with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore, whose title encapsulates his view of…
Ideas and Integrities
Fuller in first-person argument mode: an autobiographical disclosure of how teleologic design, boyhood invention,…
INDEX — Student Publication of the School of Design (1951–1977)
The cumulative author-and-subject index to the Student Publication of the School of Design, North Carolina State…
Introduction to Geometry
A classical geometry reference in the corpus, opening with a review of elementary propositions that stresses the role…
Intuition
A book-length poem and metaphysical mosaic by Fuller, written as he commissioned and named a new ocean-cruising sloop…
Inventions
Fuller's collected patented works, framed by his own narrative of starting at age 32 to run his life as an experiment…
Inventions: Twelve Around One
A Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) portfolio of Buckminster Fuller's patented inventions, its title 'Twelve Around One'…
Inventory of Reprints and Overruns — Fuller Research Foundation (c. 1956)
A six-page typed inventory, issued c. mid-1956 by R. Buckminster Fuller's own office (Fuller Research Foundation,…
Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs (WDSD Phase I, Document 1)
The opening document (1963) of Fuller & McHale's World Design Science Decade — a data-driven inventory of the world's…
Making an Ebook
A process and tooling guide — not a Fuller book — documenting how the project transforms physical books into…
More with Less
A biographical account of Fuller centered on his gift for asking searching, devastating questions. It traces his early…
New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
A Stanford scholarly collection that frames Fuller through his archive — how the papers were acquired and organized,…
Nine Chains to the Moon
Fuller's first book (J. B. Lippincott, 1938; subtitled 'An Adventure Story of Thought'), a wide-ranging argument that…
No More Secondhand God
Fuller's 1963 collection (Southern Illinois University Press) of essays and verse written between 1938 and 1960,…
Omnidirectional Halo
A dense Fuller essay arguing that epistemology — the structure of thought itself — generates a new cosmology and…
On Education
R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), edited by Peter H. Wagschal and Robert D.…
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Fuller's compact 'how to think' book: a diagnosis of specialization, a case for comprehensive design, and a practical…
Order in Space
Keith Critchlow's visual and geometric introduction to spatial order, with Fuller as an explicit inspiration. It builds…
Pilot for Spaceship Earth
A narrative biography of R. Buckminster Fuller by Athena V. Lord, written for young readers, tracing his life from…
R. Buckminster Fuller: World Man
A Princeton Architectural Press volume built around the typescript of R. Buckminster Fuller's extemporaneous 'World…
Regular Polytopes
H. S. M. Coxeter's classic treatise Regular Polytopes (Dover 1973 edition; first published 1948), a self-described…
Sunspots
Sunspots: Collected Facts and Solar Fiction (1975) is a solar-energy and appropriate-technology primer by Steve Baer of…
Synergetics
R. Buckminster Fuller's two-volume magnum opus (with E. J. Applewhite) presenting an experientially founded geometry of…
Synergetics: A New Hope
A contemporary book-length re-presentation of Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics, framing fragmented expert knowledge as…
Test Book
A demonstration/test book in the Buckyverse toolchain that validates the LaTeX-to-digital conversion pipeline (PDF,…
Tetrascroll
Fuller's 'cosmic fairy tale' retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a vehicle for synergetics and tetrahedral…
The Buckminster Fuller Reader
James Meller's curated Fuller sampler — chronology, autobiography, and selected essays arranged to show how Fuller's…
The Comprehensive Man
A Fuller essay arguing that architecture should train comprehensive integrators rather than draftsmen — a global,…
The Design Initiative (WDSD Phase I, Document 2)
Document 2 (1963) of Fuller & McHale's World Design Science Decade, built around Fuller's 'World Design Initiative'…
The Design Way
Nelson and Stolterman's argument that design is a distinct culture of inquiry and action — a 'first tradition'…
The Dome Builder's Handbook
A 1973 do-it-yourself dome-building book by John Prenis, part of the counterculture design-publishing wave that…
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller
Robert Marks's classic survey of Fuller's life and work, tracing the line from the 4D house through the Dymaxion house,…
The Ecological Context: Energy and Materials (WDSD Phase II, Document 6)
Document 6 (1967) of the World Design Science Decade — the sixth and final document — by John McHale. It sets the whole…
The Experimenters
Eva Diaz's study uses Black Mountain College to compare three rival experimental methods — Albers's disciplined…
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
A live documentary by Sam Green about R. Buckminster Fuller, narrated in person with an original score performed by the…
The Man Who Saved Geometry
Siobhan Roberts's biography of geometer H. S. M. (Donald) Coxeter, the twentieth century's foremost classical geometer,…
The Mind's Eye
Donald W. Robertson's 1974 study of how Buckminster Fuller's mind worked, told through the patented inventions…
The Sense of Significance
A 2022 book from the Estate of Buckminster Fuller chronicling Fuller's decades-long friendship with the writer…
The Ten Year Program (WDSD Phase I, Document 4)
Document 4 (1965) of the World Design Science Decade, by John McHale — the only Phase I document authored solely by…
Tools for Changing the World
A design-science workbook built directly on Fuller's insights, organized around his framing of the role, challenge, and…
Total Thinking
A short Fuller essay written at Black Mountain College in 1949 and republished in Ideas and Integrities, laying out an…
Untitled Epic Poem
R. Buckminster Fuller's book-length free-verse poem (Simon & Schuster, 1962) reading the history of U.S.…
Utopia or Oblivion
Fuller's clearest statement of the planetary choice: use design science to make the world work for 100% of humanity, or…
We Are All Astronauts
An exhibition catalog, We Are All Astronauts: The Universe of Richard Buckminster Fuller as Reflected by Contemporary…
What I Have Learned
Fuller's contribution to the 'What I Have Learned' anthology series, written partly in verse and reflecting on a…
What Quality of Environment Do We Want
Fuller's 1967 address to the AMA's Fourth Congress on Environmental Health Problems, arguing that perception and…
Wholeness
Alex Gerber uses Fuller to argue for holistic education in a fragmented world, connecting Fuller's comprehensivity,…
Wizard of the Dome
Sidney Rosen's 1969 narrative biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, written for younger readers, tracing his life from a…
Zome Primer
Steve Baer's 1970 technical booklet explaining the geometry and mathematics of zonohedra and their use in dome-like…