Contents
2 New Views on
3 Buckminster Fuller
4 Edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu
5 and Roberto G. Trujillo
7 New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
8 New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller
9 Edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo
10 Stanford University Press
11 Stanford, California
12 Stanford University Press
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18 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
19 New views on R. Buckminster Fuller / edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo.
20 p. cm.
21 Includes bibliographical references and index.
22 ISBN 978–0-8047–5209–1 (cloth : alk. paper)-ISBN 978–0-8047–6279–3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
23 1. Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895–1983—Influence. 2. Engineers—United States. 3. Architects—United States. 4. Inventors—United States. I. Chu, Hsiao-yun. II. Trujillo, Roberto G., 1951-
24 TA14O.F9N48 2009
25 620.0092—dc22 2009007192
26 Designed by Bruce Lundquist
27 Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/15 Minion
28 Contents
30 Preface Roberto G. Trujillo xi
31 Introduction Hsiao-Yun Chu 1
32 Paper Mausoleum: The Archive of R. Buckminster Fuller 6
33 Hsiao-Yun Chu
34 1927, Bucky’s Annus Mirabilis 23
35 Barry M. Katz
36 R. Buckminster Fuller: America’s Last Genuine Utopian? 36
37 Howard R Segal
38 Thinking and Building: The Formation of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Key Concepts in ‘‘Lightful Houses’’ 53 Joachim Krausse
39 ‘‘Spirit-House’’ and ‘‘Steppenwolf’’ Avant-Garde:
40 American Origins in the Dymaxion House Concept 76
41 Claude Lichtenstein
42 Energy in the Thought and Design of R. Buckminster Fuller 86
43 David E. Nye
44 Necessary Beauty: Fuller’s Sumptuary Aesthetic 99
45 Jonathan Massey
46 Backyard Landing: Three Structures by Buckminster Fuller 125 Maria Gough
47 R. Buckminster Fuller: A Technocrat for the Counterculture 146
48 Fred Turner
49 Fluid Geographies: Politics and the Revolution by Design 160 Felicity D. Scott
51 Reinhold Martin
53 Index 219