Buckminster Fuller Inc. : architecture in the age of radio /
This book offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architec-ture of radio. He always insisted tha...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Zurich :
Lars Müller Publishers,
[2015]
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| Summary: | This book offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architec-ture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnet-ic spectrum. His buildings were delicate mobile instruments for accessing the invisible universe of overlapping signals. Every detail was understood as a way of tuning into hidden waves. Architecture was built in, with, for and as radio. It rethinks the legacy of one of the key protagonists of the twentieth-century. It draws extensively on Fuller's archive to follow his radical thinking from toilets to telepathy, plastic to prosthetics and data to deep-space. It shows how the critical arguments and material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century wereoverlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today. |
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| Physical Description: | 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783037784280 (paperback) 3037784288 (paperback) |