Celebrate the radical optimism of Buckminster Fuller during the month of his birth 125 years ago!

R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By Daniel López-Pérez.

For Fuller, nature is the most exquisite technology we know; and what underlies all of his work is the quest to uncover nature’s fundamental principles—in order to foster their manifestation as a pattern integrity 'for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship.'" –Jaime Lawrence Snyder,

Lars Müller Fuller Series Editor

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 150 color / 150 bw.

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And It Came to Pass—Not to Stay

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller. Edited by Jaime Snyder.

Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster Fuller

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs / 5 bw.

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Utopia or Oblivion

The Prospects for Humanity

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller. Edited by Jaime Snyder.

A classic of utopian literature, more urgent than ever: Buckminster Fuller's provocative blueprint for the future

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 448 pgs / 32 bw.

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Synergetic Stew

Explorations in Dymaxion Dining

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
Introduction by Jamie Snyder.

A delightful dymaxion cookbook homage to Buckminster Fuller, featuring John Cage’s macrobiotic recipes, Margaret Mead’s cucumber salad and more

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Spiral bound, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 57 bw.

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Pub Date 8/4/2020
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Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller

The Art of Design Science

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
Edited by Joachim Krausse, Claude Lichtenstein.

In light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller’s works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a reedition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas and projects, and critically deals with his ideology of “rescue through technology.” This book provides a highly multifaceted insight into Fuller’s world, also showing many of its less known sides.

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. He established new standards that can be seen as decisive for future-capable design. “How to make the world work” – to this task he dedicated his unflagging attention. Convinced that specialists usually create more problems than they solve, he developed his concept for a vision of the whole.
As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur and poet, he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an outsider: a technologist with a poet’s imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties and who anticipated the globalization of our planet. Catchphrases of our time, like “Spaceship Earth”, “synergetic”, or “think global, act local” – can directly or indirectly be traced back to Bucky.

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 528 pgs / 600 color.

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Pub Date 7/30/2017
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller.

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication. While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960’s and 1970’s, they could not be more timely: like desperately needed time-capsules of wisdom for the critical moment he foresaw, and in which we find ourselves. Long out of print, they are now being published again, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and interpretation of his visionary ideas.

Initially published in 1969, and one of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.” How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future.And it Came to Pass – Not to Stay brings together Buckminster Fuller’s lyrical and philosophical best, including seven “essays“ in a form he called his “ventilated prose”, and as always addressing the current global crisis and his predictions for the future. These essays, including “How Little I Know”, “What I am Trying to Do”, “Soft Revolution”, and “Ethics”, put the task of ushering in a new era of humanity in the context of “always starting with the universe.“ In rare form, Fuller elegantly weaves the personal, the playful, the simple, and the profound.

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 152 pgs / 7 images.

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Pub Date 7/15/2008
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Education Automation

Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller, Jaime Snyder.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this “renaissance man.” These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication. While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960's and 1970's, they could not be more timely: like desperately needed time-capsules of wisdom for the critical moment he foresaw, and in which we find ourselves. Long out of print, they are now being published again, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and interpretation of his visionary ideas. A biography of Buckminster Fuller's “thought development,“ Ideas and Integrities presents an intimate self-portrait of the experiences and discoveries behind his groundbreaking ideas and inventions. Through in-depth essays like “Total Thinking,” “Design for Survival – Plus,” and “The Comprehensive Man,” spanning the period from his earliest writings to the invention of the geodesic dome and his explosion onto the world stage, he delivers a powerful manifesto for the comprehensive design revolution he had championed: “To make man a success on earth.... we must design our way to positive effectiveness.” Buckminster Fuller's prophetic 1962 book Education Automation brilliantly anticipated the need to rethink learning in light of a dawning revolution in informational technology – “upcoming major world industry.” Along with other essays on education, including “Breaking the Shell of Permitted Ignorance,” “Children: the True Scientists” and “Mistake Mystique” this volume presents a powerful approach for preparing ourselves to face epochal changes on spaceship earth: “whether we are going to make it or not... is really up to each one of us; it is not something we can delegate to the politicians – what kind of world are you really going to have?”

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 15 images.

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Pub Date 10/1/2009
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Buckminster Fuller: Ideas and Integrities

A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller.

In Ideas and Integrities Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered – among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other structures and creations that have changed the face of America and the world. And he sets forth his amazing and challenging ideas for the world of the future – ideas that would revolutionize everything from university education to bathroom design, ideas that, above all, demonstrate how we can and must make far more imaginative and efficient use of the resources now available to us to ensure a better standard of living for all men.

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 4.75 x 7 in. / 416 pgs / 50 images.

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Pub Date 10/29/2009
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Buckminster Fuller Inc.

Architecture in the Age of Radio

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By Mark Wigley.

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 architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic 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 material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century were overlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.

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Lars Müller Publishers

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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 337 images.

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Pub Date 12/15/2015
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Black Mountain

An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933–1957

Published by Spector Books/Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Edited by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Brenda Danilowitz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Matilda Felix, Mary Emma Harris, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann, Catherine Nichols, Andi Schoon, Craig Schuftan, Alice Sebrell.

From Josef Albers and John Cage to Charles Olson and Robert Rauschenberg, the teachers and students of Black Mountain shaped postwar culture

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Spector Books/Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 22 color / 450 bw.

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Pub Date 12/17/2019
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