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Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

by ThomasT.K.Zung (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best known Americans of the 20th century. often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and called the planet's friendly genius, he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term spaceship earth and an educator without parallel. Yet today, most of his books are out of print. To remedy this situation, his longtime friend and architectural partner, Thomas Zung, has compiled a Bucky Fuller reader. This anthology consists of one chapter from each of Fuller's twenty-two books with a new introduction to each chapter written by such notables as Arthur C Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Arthur L Loeb and others. Altogether, this book provides an overview of a remarkable intellectual career and the best possible introduction to the man and his thought. Bucky Fuller was one of the most original thinkers and builders that America has ever produced and this book will make his work available to a new generation.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Edition: First
 Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Published: 19 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0312266391
ISBN 13: 9780312266394

Media Reviews
Stimulating and provocative . . . Like a Francis Bacon charting the course for future generations to pursue, Fuller anticipates the need for the 'comprehensive designer, ' who would be a 'synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.' Such a man, he says, would be an initiator of design, able to anticipate all of man's needs and provide new and advanced standards of living for a steadily increasing percentage of the world's population. -- Chicago Tribune Zung's anthology traces the development of Fuller's intellectual life and provides an excellent introduction for a new generation to the life and work of this brilliant thinker. -- Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Thomas Tse Kwai Zung was born in Shanghai, China. He was a student of Buckminster Fuller and, with Fuller's Synergistics, Inc., designed the elongated geodesic dome in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968. He has worked on various geodesic domes, including the Jitterbug sculpture, Tensegrities, the Fly Eye's dome, and Fuller's last invention, the Hang-It-All. Zung is president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung, and also serves as a board member of the Buckminster Fuller institute.