Buckminster Fuller: everything I know

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Introduction

These reasoning retired large lectures span 42 hours and analyse successful extent each of Fuller’s awesome inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, done the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, arsenic good arsenic the contents of Synergetics. Autobiographical successful parts, Fuller recounts his ain individual history successful the discourse of the history of subject and industrialization.

The stories down his Dymaxion car, geodesic domes, World Game and integration of subject and humanism are lucidly communicated pinch continuous reference to his synergetic geometry. Permeating the full bid is his unsocial broad creation attack to solving the problems of the world. Some of the topics Fuller covered successful this wide ranging sermon include: architecture, design, philosophy, education, mathematics, geometry, cartography, economics, history, structure, industry, lodging and engineering.

The “Everything I Know” video bid is besides disposable online astatine archive.org/details/buckminsterfuller.

Un-Edited, Un-Cut

The printed activity beneath is simply a transcript of those lectures. Painstakingly typed connection for connection from audiotapes, these transcripts are minimally edited and maximally Fuller. In that vein you will tally into unsocial Bucky-isms: typical phrases, terminology, different condemnation structures, etc. Because of this, arsenic good arsenic the sheer measurement of words, we expect you whitethorn find places that request editing, refining and improving. Therefore, we induce you to participate! We dream that by your utilizing it arsenic an progressive assets you can, done your comments, suggestions and feedback, go a subordinate successful the process of annotating, editing, footnoting, updating and illustrating the accusation it contains. This measurement it will go progressively much useful to much and much people. The much it is utilized the much useful it tin become! Send america your edits by simply sending america a transcript of the page(s) that you deliberation request changes, marked pinch your suggestions and edits by email connected our contact page. We will past make the due adjustments to beryllium integrated and published successful the newer versions of the activity complete time.

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— The Buckminster Fuller Institute

Acknowledgments

We would for illustration to gratefully admit and convey JoAnne Ishimine, whose attraction and dedication successful transcribing the full 42 hours of the “Everything I Know” bid arsenic a unpaid was an inspiration successful getting this task disconnected the ground. Her publication is simply a striking illustration of what 1 individual tin do, and successful this task she has made a large difference.

We would besides for illustration to admit Ed Applewhite for his foresight and committedness successful producing the outstanding outline which he prepared while successful attendance astatine the lectures, and for which he has complete the years allowed america to see arsenic portion of the “Everything I Know” publications.

In summation we would for illustration to convey dedicated volunteers Russell Chu, Jim Morrisett, Robert Orenstein and the galore BFI unit members who assisted successful various aspects of the mentation of materials.