Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller

About this book

"Bucky" was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of this century. As an architect engineer entrepreneur poet he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an out-sider: a technologist with a poets imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties ("more with less") and anticipated the globalization of our planet ("think global - act local"). This visual reader documents and examines Fullers theories ideas designs and projects. It also takes an analytical look at his ideology of technology as the panacea. With numerous illustrations many published here for the first time as well as texts by Fuller and the editors. The publication presents Buckminster Fullers creations as a dazzling expression of this unconditionally optimistic technocrat whose vision of driverless Spaceship Earth led him to examine the principles of maximizing effects in the most diverse sectors of design and construction.