1 Contributors
2Hsiao-Yun Chu is assistant professor in the Department of Design and Industry at San Francisco State University, where she teaches product design and the history of design and technology. Prior to this position, she spent two years as the assistant curator of the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford University, where she helped to build an online digital media collection to complement the physical archive and began research for this book. She holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford universities.
3 Maria Gough is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Stanford University. A specialist of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde, Gough has published her research in numerous journals and exhibition catalogs, and her book The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution was published by the University of California Press in 2005. Her current research concerns the work of El Lissitzky and Gustavs Klucis, extreme drawing practices in the twentieth century, and a study of the ‘‘afterlife’’ of the 1920s in the 1950s and 1960s.
4 Barry M. Katz teaches in the Department of Industrial Design and the Graduate Program in Design at California College of the Arts. He has been an editor at Design Book Review and a contributing editor for I.D. magazine and Metropolis. Barry’s books include Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation (New York: Schocken Books, 1982); Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942–1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989); and Technology and Culture: A Historical Romance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990). His new book, in progress, examines the history of Silicon Valley design.
5 Joachim Krausse is professor of design theory in the Department of Design at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, where he heads the Master course in Integrated Design (MAID). His research on R. Buckminster Fuller, along with that of Claude Lichtenstein, led to a traveling exhibition (1999–2002) and book (in two volumes) entitled Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, the Art of Design Science (Baden: Lars Muller, 1999). His research focuses on issues of technical culture and the importance of construction as an embodiment of intelligence.
6 Claude Lichtenstein is a writer and historian whose research on R. Buckminster Fuller, along with that of Joachim Krausse, led to a traveling exhibition (1999–2002) and a book entitled Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, the Art of Design Science (Baden: Lars Muller, 1999). Additional books include As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary (Baden: Lars Muller, 2001) and Handmade (Baden: Lars Muller, 2005).
7 Reinhold Martin is an architect and associate professor of architecture at Columbia University, where he directs the Master of Science Program in Advanced Architectural Design. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, as well as degrees from the Architectural Association and Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute. A founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room, he is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Spaces (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).
8 Jonathan Massey is associate professor in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, where he teaches the history of architecture. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty, Massey taught at universities in Los Angeles and New York, and he worked at the architecture firms of Dagmar Richter and Frank O. Gehry & Associates. He holds bachelor and doctoral degrees from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. He is the author of a forthcoming book on Claude Bragdon’s progressive architecture.
9 David E. Nye, PhD University of Minnesota, is professor of history at Warwick University. His ten books include Electrifying America (1990); American Technological Sublime (1994); Consuming Power (1998); America as Second Creation (2003); and Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (2006). In 2005 he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, its highest honor.
10 Felicity D. Scott is assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University. 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.
11 Howard R Segal is professor of history and director of the Technology and Society Project at the University of Maine. He specializes in the history of technology and the history of science, and his research and writing have focused on the history of American technology and of American utopianism. His publications include Technological Utopianism in American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) and Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
12 Fred Turner is an assistant professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). His research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism, and the intersection of media and American cultural history.