Becoming Bucky Fuller

In honor of moving to Chicago with her husband, Anne Hewlett Fuller began a diary. Even though she was nine months' pregnant, Anne was delighted to depart Long Island to live with her husband again. Twenty-one days later, on August 28, 1927, Anne gave birth to a girl, Allegra, who was healthier than her deceased sister, Alexandra. Starting a new life together in a new city with a new baby offered the prospect of a happy future to the young couple. Anne lovingly noted that she and Bucky were now "going to stay together always as we miss each other too much."

Core structure

• Building Stockade
• Corporate Restructuring
• Project Development
• Trial Offer
• Supporting Documents
• Prototype

Main ideas

• When Fuller went to Chicago as the sole representative of SBS, he was its president and fully supported by its board of directors.
• Fuller was positive the concept of Fuller Houses — a company to manufacture fully equipped houses — would translate into a lucrative business.
• Fuller rushed the 4D House project because he planned to present it at the upcoming AIA convention.

Why it matters

It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, detailing the formative ventures and prototypes through which Fuller became the public figure "Bucky."

See Also

• Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario — Blake's bibliographical essay covering this work
• Marina Warner — mythographer whose work on "the truth in stories" illuminates the Fuller legend this biography scrutinizes
• Loretta Lorance — author of this book

Sources

• becoming_bucky_fuller/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
• becoming_bucky_fuller/ — source project root