The below article is from Trimtab Summer 1999:

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is very happy to announce that the Buckminster Fuller Archive will be moving at the end of this summer to Stanford University. The agreement with Stanford was concluded on July 16th 1999 and according to Roberto Trujillo, Head of the Department of Special Collections at Stanford, where the Fuller Archive will be located, the collection will become available to scholars within a relatively brief period of time.

This is the index to structure and content of the BUCKMINSTER FULLER ARCHIVES as it was originally conceived. You will find sample materials from all of the Sections on this web site. We have, however, reorganized the materials in way we hope will be more assessable. It is our intention over the months to make more and more materials available to all our web site users.

Read R. Buckminster Fuller's thoughts about archiving:

Eleven models from the Buckminster Fuller Institute

These and similar models were used by Fuller to demonstrate the concepts of "energetic-synergetic geometry" in his public lectures. Larger versions of these QTVR objects will be part of an upcoming exhibition based on the archive. Definitions of some terms coined by Fuller to describe the geometry used in these models may be found in the glossary. To search the contents of the Fuller archive at Stanford, see the Finding aid to the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection, Stanford University Libraries. Copyright © by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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By Michael John Gorman


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It may seem a contradiction that a man who not only made an impassioned call for doing more with less, but also coined the phrase itself, spent his life amassing, storing and carting around what now weighs in at approximately 90,000 pounds of personal history. But it is no contradiction when one realizes that Bucky knew, and planned for, a time when technology would allow that much material to easily fit into a space smaller than a shoe box. Even those of us who spend daily hours on the Internet and World Wide Web or must upgrade our computer systems or software several times a year are startled by the speed at which computers are getting better, faster and cheaper at a rate unparalleled by the performance curve of any other current technology. If Buckminster Fuller were alive he would probably not be surprised.

Fuller in the library of his Home Dome in Carbondale, Illinois, circa 1960