Buckminster Fuller Inc. : architecture in the age of radio / Mark Wigley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigley, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.

Fuller, R. Buckminster.

Engineering design.

Physical Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ennetbaden : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

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 architec-ture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnet-ic 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 materi-al techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century wereoverlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Broadcasting Shelter 13

Radio Man 18

The Wireless Avant-Garde 30

Invisible Empires Of The Air 38

What Is A House? 49

Radiation Cloud 57

The Human Beam 65

Pipeless Dreams 75

Intestinal Mobility 81

Closed-Circuit Architecture 89

The Fuller Bowl 94

Cleaning The Architect 108

Bathroom Brain 119

Liquidity Crisis 124

The Plastic Line 131

Bubbletopia 134

Inhabiting The Sky 146

Radar Camp 155

Migrating Mirage 167

Accelerating The Dome 178

Inside The Eyeball 193

Polymer Delirium 204

The Architecture Of Anticipation 212

Planetary Homeboy 221

Blueprint For A Cloud 225

Expanded Television 236

Prototype Planets 241

The Art Of The Invisible 252

Technicolor Surveillance 258

The Ultimate Window 262

The Architecture Of The Brain 271

Network Fever 279

Dancing Gurus 281

Animate Nets 286

Floating Amplifier 292

From Scan To Plan 298

Digital Traffic 304

The Biology Of Information 308

Nerve Design 312

Invisible Pictures 317

Unsettlement 324.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783037784280

3037784288

OCLC:

884953743