R. Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein, Joachim Krausse

Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science

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This is an exuberant portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller, the visionary who exhorted us to "think global, act local" and devised the geodesic dome and the concept of Spaceship Earth. –House & Garden

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Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science

In light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller’s works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a reedition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas and projects, and critically deals with his ideology of “rescue through technology.” This book provides a highly multifaceted insight into Fuller’s world, also showing many of its less known sides.

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. He established new standards that can be seen as decisive for future-capable design. “How to make the world work” – to this task he dedicated his unflagging attention. Convinced that specialists usually create more problems than they solve, he developed his concept for a vision of the whole.

As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur and poet, he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an outsider: a technologist with a poet’s imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties and who anticipated the globalization of our planet. Catchphrases of our time, like “Spaceship Earth”, “synergetic”, or “think global, act local” – can directly or indirectly be traced back to Bucky.

Author

R. Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein, Joachim Krausse

Publisher

Integral Lars Müller

Format

Paperback

Pages

528

Language

ENG- English

Size

9.5 x 6.5 Inches

About the author

R. Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein, Joachim Krausse

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was avisionary American architect, inventor, and futurist known for his sustainable designs, most notably the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car.He promoted the concept of "Spaceship Earth," arguing for efficient resource use to create a world that works for everyone, and his ideas inspired the discovery of the buckminsterfullerene (or fullerene) carbon molecule.

Claude Lichtenstein (*1949) is a Swiss architect and an expert on design history. From 1985 to 2001, he was responsible for exhibitions on architecture and design at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in the function of curator. He has lectured on design history and design science at various Swiss universities of applied sciences (ZHdK, FHNW, HSLU, ZHAW) and publishes widely on these subjects.

Joachim Krausse, historian of architecture and design, is a retired professor of design theory at Anhalt University of Applied Science in Dessau, associate investigator of the Cluster of Excellence »Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung« at Humboldt-University Berlin, and since 1991 permanent collaborator of the architectural magazine ARCH+. He directed film documentaries on the history of housing and dwelling, curated exhibitions, and published widely on the work of Buckminster Fuller, e.g. Your Private Sky, R. Buckminster Fuller, 2 vols. 1999, 2001, republished 2017. He is now teaching at the MSc Program COOP Design Research at the Bauhaus Dessau.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein, Joachim Krausse

Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science

Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science

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