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September 14, 2004
Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science
| Title | Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science |  |
| Author | Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein (editors) | |
| Publisher | Lars Müller Publishers, Switzerland | |
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| ISBN | 3 907044 88 6 | |
| Reviewed by | Jane Szita | |
| Buckminster Fuller was many things, above all a universalist and a visionary. This book, appropriately, is a scrapbook of his many achievements and preoccupations; containing photographs, drawings, letters and other writings from the Fuller archive. Early in life, Fuller made the decision to regard his own life as an experiment; styling himself ‘Guinea Pig B’ he kept a sort of archive/diary of his endeavours known as the Chronofile — much of the material in this book originated there. Seeing himself as a follower of Plato, Aristotle and Newton, Fuller worked obsessively at discovering "geometry as nature uses it," arriving at groundbreaking mathematical formulae as well as his trademark geodesic dome. The dome, which aims at maximum efficiency in the relationship of volume to weight, use of materials to useful surface, and assembly time to mobility, is a paradigm of lightness. It was also a socio-cultural phenomenon, promising a life free from the restraints symbolized by traditional, rectangular architecture. | ||
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Posted by Books Editor at September 14, 2004 09:33 PM