Becoming Bucky Fuller
In honor of moving to Chicago with her husband, Anne Hewlett Fuller began a diary. Even though she was nine months' pregnant, Anne was delighted to depart Long Island to live with her husband again. Twenty-one days later, on August 28, 1927, Anne gave birth to a girl, Allegra, who was healthier than her deceased sister, Alexandra. Starting a new life together in a new city with a new baby offered the prospect of a happy future to the young couple. Anne lovingly noted that she and Bucky were now "going to stay together always as we miss each other too much."
Core structure
- Building Stockade
- Corporate Restructuring
- Project Development
- Trial Offer
- Supporting Documents
- Prototype
Main ideas
- When Fuller went to Chicago as the sole representative of SBS, he was its president and fully supported by its board of directors.
- Fuller was positive the concept of Fuller Houses — a company to manufacture fully equipped houses — would translate into a lucrative business.
- Fuller rushed the 4D House project because he planned to present it at the upcoming AIA convention.
Why it matters
It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, detailing the formative ventures and prototypes through which Fuller became the public figure "Bucky."
See Also
- Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario — Blake's bibliographical essay covering this work
- Marina Warner — mythographer whose work on "the truth in stories" illuminates the Fuller legend this biography scrutinizes
- Loretta Lorance — author of this book
Sources
- becoming_bucky_fuller/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
- becoming_bucky_fuller/ — source project root