Buckminster Fuller
- ISBN-10
- 080081116X
- ISBN-13
- 9780800811167
- Series
- Buckminster Fuller
- Category
- Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Taplinger Publishing Company
- Authors
- Martin Pawley, Richard Buckminster Fuller
Description
That many of Buckminster Fuller's schemes remained dreams overlooks his importance as a teacher and thinker about architecture and urbanism, and his concern with the environment and the role of technology in improving the quality of life, mark him out as a man before his time.
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- 2008
- 257 pages
- Paperback
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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