Who is Buckminster Fuller?

Introduction to Geodesic Domes and Structure



R. Buckminster Fuller spent much of the early 20th Century looking for ways to improve human shelter by:

  • Applying modern technological know-how to shelter construction.
  • Making shelter more comfortable and efficient.
  • Making shelter more economically available to a greater number of people.
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Spaceship Earth


Actual satelite photo of earth at night, image courtesy of NASA, click here to see more images

Our Spaceship Earth: The purpose of this section of the site is to provide access to resources and tools that will assist visitors in acquiring a comprehensive understanding and visual grasp of the status of our planet's life support systems. The Dymaxion Map, World Game, and the Design Science Decade represent Fuller's pioneering work in this field and serve as important historical and inspirational reference points.


What is Spaceship Earth ?

The following definition is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources available on Earth.

It may have been derived from a passage in Henry George's best known work, Progress and Poverty1 (1879). From book IV, chapter 2: "It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space. If the bread and beef above decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a hatch and there is a new supply, of which before we never dreamed. And very great command over the services of others comes to those who as the hatches are opened are permitted to say, 'This is mine!'"

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The Fuller Projection Map




Fuller Projection

A New View for the New Millennium...A powerful tool for advancing humanity's option for success...

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Buckminster Fuller in the News

Google News

Click here to view recent articles from Google News related to Buckminster Fuller.

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Books available On-Line

Everything I Know ⋅ The full transcripts to Fuller's 42 hour lecture.
A Fuller Explanation by Amy Edmondson
Grunch of Giants by Buckminster Fuller
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
Synergetics I & II ⋅ Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Now fully integrated into one volume online.
World Design Science Decade Documents ⋅ Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs now available online in pdf format.
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A Fuller Explanation by Amy C. Edmondson



from the Preface

Buckminster Fuller has been alternately hailed as the most innovative thinker of our time and dismissed as an incomprehensible maverick, but there is a consistent thread running through all the wildly disparate reactions. One point about which there is little disagreement is the difficulty of understanding Bucky. "It was great! What did he say?" is the oft-repeated joke, describing the reaction of a typical enraptured listener after one of Fuller's lectures.

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Buckminster Fuller profiled on PBS's SundayArts



thirteen.org

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Education Automation by R. Buckminster Fuller



Education Automation Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies
by R. Buckminster Fuller

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American Masters: Buckminster Fuller - Thinking Out Loud



American Masters Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

» Click here to find out more

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Grunch of Giants by R. Buckminster Fuller



Grunch of Giants
by R. Buckminster Fuller
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
New York

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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller



OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH

by R. Buckminster Fuller
E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. c1963, 1971, paperback.

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Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller by Scott Carrier



Click here to view 'Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller - an Audio Documentary in 10 parts' by Scott Carrier

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Fuller Archive at Stanford University



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.

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The Buckminster Fuller FAQ



Check out the Buckminster Fuller FAQ by Christopher J. Fearnley

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Stanford provides free online access to 380 hours of Audio/Video from Fuller Archive



After a 2 year effort funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities'  "Save the Treasures"  program, Stanford  University Libraries  have produced an online collection containing  approximately 300 hours of audio and 80 hours of video. The digital collection  has been painstakingly selected and reformatted from over 1700 hours of original analog recordings.  In keeping with the educational and public service goals of Stanford University Libraries, the digital archive on this site is being made available without charge to registered users.


Click here to acess the digital collection

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