Your Private Sky

Author : Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3907044940

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Your Private Sky by Richard Buckminster Fuller Pdf

This book complements the volume R. Buckminster Fuller, Your Private Sky: Design Art Science and gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical and anthropological concepts. This poet of technology was a poet as engineer, a thinker as designer, an artist as researcher who left an immense testament of writings - including texts of visionary importance, great consistency, penetrating linguistic force and not least of urgent topicality. The book documents various aspects of his widely ramified publications. Fuller spoke to the whole world, indeed to Spaceship Earth, the metaphor that he coined in 1950. He did this as one of the greatest and incomparably original individuals of our time in a genuinely American sense. Some of the texts are published here for the first time, such as his first programmatic manuscript Lightful Houses (1928), an informative lecture text on Dymaxion House (1929), his Letter to Einstein (1944) and the convolute Noah's ArkII (1951) as a commented facsimile. Photographs from Fuller's estate complement the texts.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 3037785241

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Your Private Sky by R. Buckminster Fuller Pdf

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.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3907044940

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Your Private Sky by R. Buckminster Fuller Pdf

This title, which complements the volume Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science (see page 44), gives an authentic insight into the development of Fuller's architectonic, technical, & anthropological concepts. Fuller was the epitome of the poet as engineer, the thinker as designer, the artist as researcher. He left behind a voluminous quantity of writing, including texts of visionary importance & penetrating linguistic force, as well as of urgent topicality. The book documents various aspects of Fuller's widely respected texts. These testaments were intended to be shared with the whole world, or, as Fuller coined it in 1950, with "Spaceship Earth."###3-7643-6072-0

Author : Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Design
ISBN : OCLC:1391654545

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Your Private Sky by Richard Buckminster Fuller Pdf

Author : Catherine Cowles
Publisher : The PageSmith LLC
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951936174

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Fractured Sky by Catherine Cowles Pdf

Damaged. Broken. Destroyed. I’ve heard it all. A single moment of trusting the wrong person shattered my life into pieces, and my family has never looked at me the same. It’s impossible to convince them that I’m anything more than the broken girl they rescued all those years ago. Until I meet him. Ramsey’s grumpy demeanor and menacing scowl scare most of the world away. But not me. Not when I’ve seen his gentle hands soothe an abused colt or comfort a terrified mare. And when I finally get up the courage to strike out on my own, Ramsey’s there. Roommates felt like such a safe proposition until Ramsey’s lingering touches and wicked smile light a fire in me I don’t think will ever be extinguished. And he feels it, too… But just as my new life begins to take root, an evil from my past emerges from the shadows, casting a darkness on my newfound freedom. And this time, they won’t settle for pieces of me. They want everything…

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Crown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593136287

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Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

Author : Scott Eastham
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780718830311

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American Dreamer by Scott Eastham Pdf

The American architect R. Buckminster Fuller was one of the most imaginative technological innovators of his age as a designer, engineer, mathematician, and social visionary. Eastham takes a look at the artistic applications of Fullers work.

Author : Kate Atkinson
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385691567

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Big Sky by Kate Atkinson Pdf

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an ageing Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It’s picturesque, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for a suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him across a sinister network—and back into the path of someone from his past. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking new novel, both sharply funny and achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.

Author : Roger Fawcett-Tang
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 185669366X

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New Book Design by Roger Fawcett-Tang Pdf

New Book Design showcases the most interesting, influential, and accomplished book designs from the last ten years.It features over 100 titles published around the world, each chosen for their outstanding design qualities, from the publications of large mainstream publishers to those of small independent companies -- and even those from individual artists. Included in its pages are lavishly produced books with unconventional formats and unusual print techniques as well as less flamboyant publications produced for various different markets. A wide variety of books are featured, from paperback novels to architectural monographs, from text-based to profusely-illustrated books. Divided into four main sections -- "Packaging," "Navigation," "Layout," and "Specification" -- the book examines each facet of book design: cover design; contents and structure; image usage; grids; typography; paper; printing; and binding. Clear photography captures each featured book, and interviews with prominent book designers, art directors, and publishers provide extra insight. New Book Design is sure to provide a rich source of inspiration to book designers and bibliophiles alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : igmade.edition
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Junk Jet n°2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Neustadter
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781943006892

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Love You Like the Sky by Sarah Neustadter Pdf

Writing from the unique point of view of a suicide survivor who is also a psychologist, Sarah Neustadter presents a selection of the emails she sent to John, her deceased beloved, over a three-year period following his death. Documenting the raw emotions she experienced during this time period—grief, despair, abandonment, confusion, and the seductive feeling of wanting to die—she seeks to answer the hard existential and psychological questions: Why is this happening? What does this mean about mortality? How do I go on with the rest of my life without my beloved? How do I heal my broken heart? Will I ever love again? Love You Like the Sky is a companion guide and roadmap for supporting younger women and men through intense and complicated grief as an access point toward deeper transformation—shifting awareness from despair to beauty.

Author : Hsiao-yun Chu,Roberto G. Trujillo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780804752091

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New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller by Hsiao-yun Chu,Roberto G. Trujillo Pdf

In this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay by R. Buckminster Fuller Pdf

And it Came to Pass – Not to Stay brings together a selection of Buckminster Fuller’s lyrical and philosophical best, including seven “essays” in a form he called his “ventilated prose” which address global crises 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. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller

Author : Renata Tyszczuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317074045

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Provisional Cities by Renata Tyszczuk Pdf

This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene – the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling on Earth. ‘Provisional cities’ are explored as exemplary sites for thinking about living in this unsettled time. Each chapter focuses on cities, settlements or proxy urbanisations, including past disaster zones, remote outposts in the present and future urban fossils. The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts. The book argues that these rounder and richer accounts can better equip humanity to think through questions of vulnerability, responsibility and opportunity that are presented by immense processes of planetary change. These are cautionary tales for the Anthropocene. Central to this project is the proposition that living with uncertainty requires that architecture is reframed as a provisional practice. This book would be beneficial to students and academics working in architecture, geography, planning and environmental humanities as well as professionals working to shape the future of cities.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89049549108

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf