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Bucky Inc: Architecture in the Age of Radio

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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (12/71895 – 1/7/1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. He published more than 30 books, coining or popularising terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularised the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. (Wikipedia) 'Bucky Inc.' 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 architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic 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. 'Bucky Inc.' 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 were overlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today. 377 illustrations
Release date NZ
October 29th, 2015
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
150 Illustrations, unspecified
Pages
320
Dimensions
165x240x25
ISBN-13
9783037784280
Product ID
22491605

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