1 List of Figures 2 1 Claude Stoller, Studies Building across Lake Eden, Black Mountain College, 1941. Gelatin silver photograph. Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina. 1.1 ‘‘Germans on Faculty At Black Mountain School,’’ Asheville (NC) Citizen, December 5, 1933. Photograph by Tim Nighswander. Courtesy of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / The Asheville Citizen-Times.1.2 Josef Breitenbach, Josef Albers’ Color Class, Summer 1944. Gelatin silver photograph © The Josef and Yaye Breitenbach Charitable Foundation, New York. Courtesy The Josef Breitenbach Archive, Center For Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.1.3 Unknown artist, Drawing Study, n.d. Reproduced in J. Albers, Search Versus Re-Search (Hartford, CT: Trinity College Press, 1969), 51. © Trinity College Trustees. Courtesy of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.3.1 Masato Nakagawa, Buckminster Fuller with Model. Black Mountain College, summer 1949. Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina.3.2 Buckminster Fuller, Model of Dymaxion Car, 1932--33. Screenprint on Lennox paper, 30 × 40″. From Inventions: Twelve Around One (Cincinnati: Carl Solway Gallery, 1981). Edition of 60. Courtesy Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.3.3 Hazel Larsen Archer, Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College, summer 1948. Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.3.4 Kenneth Snelson, Early X-Piece, tensegrity structure, 1948--49. Wood and nylon, 11½ × 53⁄8 × 53⁄8″. Collection of the artist. Photograph by Kenneth Snelson. © Kenneth Snelson. Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York. Document 3