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Wizard of the dome : R. Buckminster Fuller, designer for the future

Title: Wizard of the dome : R. Buckminster Fuller, designer for the future / by Sidney Rosen.
Author: Rosen, Sidney.
Publication: Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown & Co., [1969]

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Description

x, 189 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

"From Afghanistan to Montreal, from St. Louis to Honolulu, people have seen geodesic domes in spectacular use. But the American genius who created them has become almost a legendary figure instead of a real man living and working today. Here is the inventor himself, a man with the courage of his convictions, who faced a hostile society on his own terms, and won"--from front jacket flap.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [185]-186.

Contents

A beginning -- Gorwing up in New ENgland -- First failures, first successes -- A year of decision -- THe birth of dymaxion -- Great ideas, but bad luck -- The corncrib that became a house -- The house that failed -- Nature's own geometry -- Geodesic domes for the world -- Success at sixty -- Bucky Fuller, poet an dprophet -- Living space for World Man -- The end -- but not the end -- Bibliography.

LCCN

74077452

OCLC

ocm00048555
48555
SCSB-127819

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library