Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario

St. Martin's Press, 1980, hardcover, illustrated, A4 format, 216 pages, condition: very good.

Combines Buckminster Fuller's own words with pictures from the Fuller archives, from Fuller's family album, and from Snyder's documentary film to provide a portrait of the renowned American thinker, inventor, mathematician, and individualist.

Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.