Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility In keeping with the global perspective on human affairs, Fuller approached design problems comprehensively. Rather than attempt to redesign the house, he attempted to reinvent the whole housing industry. Instead of considering how to improve the conditions of cities, he declared the city itself to be obsolete. Instead of attempting to improve an existing model of automobile, he addressed the question of human transportation from first principles, emulating the design principles he observed in nature in his streamlined Dymaxion Car.

"Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility," based on new research carried out in the Fuller Archive at Stanford University argues that the key elements of Fuller's approach to design were born from a life-long ambition to make buildings airborne. Fuller's approach to solving the problem of shelter through a vision of domestic and intellectual autonomy is situated in intellectual and historical context.

This 207 page biography and work history of Buckminster Fuller includes hundreds of rare high quality photographs from the Fuller Archive at Stanford University.


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