Buckminster Fuller - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0312288905 ISBN 13: 9780312288907

Verlag: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S., 2002

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"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"

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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 22 books with a new introduction to each chapter written by such notables as Arthur C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Dr Martin Meyerson, Sir Harry Kroto, Arthur L. Loeb, Ed Applewhite, 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 the world has ever produced, and this book makes his work available to a new generation.

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• Verlag: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312288905
• ISBN 13: 9780312288907
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Zung Thomas T. K.