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Work entity articles — books, documents, and other authored works by or about Fuller.

Last updated: 2026-07-29

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4d-time-lock.md Fuller's 1928 foundational text laying out his early vision for industrialized, mass-produced housin... buckminster-fuller, dymaxion-house, 4d, prefa... 2026-06-27
50-years-of-the-design-science-revolution.md A 1969 World Resources Inventory volume, published with Southern Illinois University, that gathers f... buckminster-fuller, design-science, world-gam... 2026-06-27
a-fuller-explanation.md Amy C. Edmondson's canonical pedagogical introduction to Fuller's Synergetics (Birkhäuser, 1987; Des... about-buckminster-fuller, synergetics, geomet... 2026-07-29
a-fuller-view.md An overview of Fuller's life and worldview organized around integrity of the individual, universal p... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, trimtab... 2026-06-27
american-dreamer.md An essay (1987) assessing Fuller's legacy against the politics of globalization, arguing he would no... about-buckminster-fuller, synergy, globalizat... 2026-06-27
and-it-came-to-pass-not-to-stay.md Fuller in poetic mode: an autobiographical disclosure of how he thinks, how he names Universe, and w... buckminster-fuller, poetry, universe, design-... 2026-06-27
approaching-the-benign-environment.md A volume drawn from Auburn's Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities, with Fuller arguing f... buckminster-fuller, comprehensivity, educatio... 2026-06-27
artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-1.md Volume One of the four-volume Garland series The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, edited with des... buckminster-fuller, artifacts, design, dymaxi... 2026-06-27
artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-2.md Volume Two of James Ward's four-volume Garland catalog of Fuller's designs and drawings, covering th... buckminster-fuller, artifacts, design, james-... 2026-06-27
artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-3.md Volume Three of James Ward's four-volume Garland catalog of R. Buckminster Fuller's designs and draw... buckminster-fuller, artifacts, design, james-... 2026-06-27
artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller-vol-4.md The fourth and final volume of the Garland series The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, edited wit... buckminster-fuller, artifacts, design, james-... 2026-06-27
artifacts-of-r-buckminster-fuller.md The four-volume Garland series 'The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller' — a comprehensive primary-so... buckminster-fuller, artifacts, design, dymaxi... 2026-06-27
becoming-bucky-fuller.md A biographical account of Fuller's formative late-1920s years — the move to Chicago, the Stockade bu... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
beyond-the-cube.md A history of polyhedra up to 1900, told as a voyage through historic objects and images of polyhedra... fuller-adjacent, polyhedra, geometry, history... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-a-bibliographical-biography.md Trevor Blake's 2017 magazine essay that narrates Fuller's life through his published works — a 'pend... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, bibliogr... 2026-06-30
buckminster-fuller-anthology.md An architect-edited anthology assembled to reintroduce Fuller's thinking to a new generation after y... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, geodesic... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-as-captain-of-spaceship-earth.md A 2007 scholarly article by historian Peder Anker arguing that Fuller's Navy experience shaped his '... academic-paper, spaceship-earth, world-game... 2026-07-02
buckminster-fuller-at-home-in-the-universe.md A biography presenting Fuller as a 'raging optimist' whose hold on the young rests on his belief in... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, ephemera... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-inc.md A study reading Fuller through the lens of radio and electromagnetic media, arguing architecture has... about-buckminster-fuller, radio, electromagne... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-patents.md Curated, verified table of R. Buckminster Fuller's 22 own U.S. patents (1927–1983), distilled from a... buckminster-fuller, patents, inventions, dyma... 2026-06-28
buckminster-fuller-pawley.md Martin Pawley's biography casting Fuller among the heroes of the design century, tracing the Dymaxio... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-potter.md A biography of Fuller opening with his famously corrected farsighted childhood vision and following... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-s-universe.md A biography tracing Fuller's comprehensive heritage, experiential education, and lessons of love, wa... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, experien... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-starting-with-the-universe.md Exhibition-catalog synthesis presenting Fuller as the figure who taught a fragmenting century to thi... about-buckminster-fuller, exhibition-catalog... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller-to-children-of-earth.md A 1972 Doubleday picture book pairing Fuller's spoken words (drawn from Robert Snyder's film 'Buckmi... buckminster-fuller, pattern-integrity, geomet... 2026-06-27
buckminster-fuller.md An autobiographical monologue/scenario assembled from film, tape, and archival material, presenting... buckminster-fuller, biography, autobiography... 2026-06-27
bucky-a-fuller-future.md A 2020 documentary by Noel B. Murphy presenting Fuller as the 'Grandfather of Green,' the first film... documentary, film, noel-murphy, trimtab, abou... 2026-07-02
bucky-for-beginners-synergetic-geometry.md A 1984 illustrated instructional book by Mary Laycock teaching Fuller-inspired synergetic geometry t... book, education, synergetic-geometry, model-b... 2026-07-02
bucky.md Hugh Kenner's literary, skeptical-yet-admiring tour of Fuller, treating him as a coordinate-system t... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
buckyworks.md An accessible introduction (not an academic treatise) to Fuller's recurring concepts, themes, and an... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, chronofi... 2026-06-27
candid-conversation-playboy.md R. Buckminster Fuller's February 1972 Playboy interview — a wide-ranging, plain-language statement o... buckminster-fuller, interview, playboy, 1972... 2026-06-28
climate---architecture.md A study of how the sun and climate should govern architectural design, treating the architect as a r... fuller-adjacent, architecture, climate-respon... 2026-06-27
collaborating-for-comprehensivity.md Proposes 'comprehensivity' — a facility in questioning, conceptualizing, and acting to build an inte... fuller-adjacent, comprehensivity, design-scie... 2026-06-27
cosmic-fishing.md Applewhite's inside account of co-writing Synergetics with Fuller — the collaboration, editorial wre... about-buckminster-fuller, synergetics, collab... 2026-06-27
cosmography.md Fuller's last complete book links synergetics, history, and politics into a single argument: humans... buckminster-fuller, synergetics, universe, ge... 2026-06-27
critical-path.md Fuller argues that world change depends on understanding the sequence of enabling steps — the critic... buckminster-fuller, critical-path, design-sci... 2026-06-27
decentralizing-electricity-production.md Dedicated to Fuller and his 'dare to be naive' inspiration, this is a book about what could happen r... fuller-adjacent, decentralized-energy, electr... 2026-06-27
design-science-primer.md Medard Gabel and David Heeney's manual for learning and applying design science (2015) — a practical... about-buckminster-fuller, design-science, ped... 2026-07-29
dome-cookbook-of-geodesic-geometry.md David Kruschke's hand-lettered 1975 workbook that derives the chord factors and dihedral angles of g... fuller-adjacent, geodesic-dome, geometry, cho... 2026-07-01
domebook-one.md Domebook One (1970) was Lloyd Kahn's Whole Earth-affiliated do-it-yourself dome-building manual, bor... geodesic-dome, counterculture, whole-earth, o... 2026-07-02
earth-inc.md Fuller's early-to-middle-period argument that the planet should be treated as a single navigable sys... buckminster-fuller, spaceship-earth, world-ac... 2026-06-27
education-automation.md Fuller's argument that schooling should help the new life acquire the latest decontaminated informat... buckminster-fuller, education, design-science... 2026-06-27
est.md Est: The Steersman Handbook (L. Clark Stevens, Bantam, 1971) is a counterculture cybernetics manifes... fuller-adjacent, transformation, social-chang... 2026-06-27
everything-i-know.md Transcripts of Buckminster Fuller's extended 'Everything I Know' lecture sessions, an autobiographic... buckminster-fuller, lecture-transcript, patte... 2026-06-27
from-the-library-of-rbf.md A catalog of more than two hundred volumes from Fuller's working library — many inscribed by friends... about-buckminster-fuller, library, book-catal... 2026-06-27
fuller-research-foundation-inventory.md A six-page typed inventory, issued c. mid-1956 by R. Buckminster Fuller's own office (Fuller Researc... about-buckminster-fuller, bibliography, dymax... 2026-06-28
fuller-speak.md A semiotic reading of Fuller's design work, arguing that early in his career he created a new sign s... about-buckminster-fuller, semiotics, peirce... 2026-06-27
fullers-earth.md A memoir-and-dialogue book built around a recorded conversation between the eighty-five-plus-year-ol... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
geodesic-math-and-how-to-use-it.md A technical manual for calculating geodesic and tensegrity structures — shell-like forms that hold t... about-buckminster-fuller, geodesic-math, tens... 2026-06-27
grunch-of-giants.md Fuller's late polemic recasting the multinational corporation as GRUNCH — the Gross Universal Cash H... buckminster-fuller, economics, corporations... 2026-06-27
guinea-pig-b.md Fuller's late first-person account of his life as a deliberate experiment — naming himself 'Guinea P... buckminster-fuller, biography, autobiography... 2026-06-27
humans-in-universe.md A late conversation between the eighty-seven-year-old Fuller and co-author Anwar Dil, exploring how... buckminster-fuller, design-science, philosoph... 2026-06-27
i-seem-to-be-a-verb.md Fuller's experimental 1970 Bantam book, made with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore, whose title encapsu... buckminster-fuller, philosophy, process-think... 2026-06-27
ideas-and-integrities.md Fuller in first-person argument mode: an autobiographical disclosure of how teleologic design, boyho... buckminster-fuller, autobiography, design-sci... 2026-06-27
introduction-to-geometry.md A classical geometry reference in the corpus, opening with a review of elementary propositions that... fuller-adjacent, geometry, euclid, symmetry... 2026-06-27
intuition.md A book-length poem and metaphysical mosaic by Fuller, written as he commissioned and named a new oce... buckminster-fuller, poetry, metaphysics, intu... 2026-06-27
inventions-twelve-around-one.md A Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) portfolio of Buckminster Fuller's patented inventions, its title... buckminster-fuller, inventions, patents, clos... 2026-06-27
inventions.md Fuller's collected patented works, framed by his own narrative of starting at age 32 to run his life... buckminster-fuller, inventions, patents, dyma... 2026-06-27
making-an-ebook.md A process and tooling guide — not a Fuller book — documenting how the project transforms physical bo... ebook, pandoc, publishing, tooling, digitizat... 2026-06-27
more-with-less.md A biographical account of Fuller centered on his gift for asking searching, devastating questions. I... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, design-s... 2026-06-27
new-views-on-r-buckminster-fuller.md A Stanford scholarly collection that frames Fuller through his archive — how the papers were acquire... about-buckminster-fuller, archive, scholarshi... 2026-06-27
nine-chains-to-the-moon.md Fuller's first book (J. B. Lippincott, 1938; subtitled 'An Adventure Story of Thought'), a wide-rang... buckminster-fuller, rationalization, phantom-... 2026-06-27
no-more-secondhand-god.md Fuller's 1963 collection (Southern Illinois University Press) of essays and verse written between 19... buckminster-fuller, design-science, poetry, p... 2026-06-27
omnidirectional-halo.md A dense Fuller essay arguing that epistemology — the structure of thought itself — generates a new c... buckminster-fuller, epistemology, synergy, co... 2026-06-27
on-education.md R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), edited by Peter H. Wag... buckminster-fuller, education, education-auto... 2026-06-27
operating-manual-for-spaceship-earth.md Fuller's compact 'how to think' book: a diagnosis of specialization, a case for comprehensive design... buckminster-fuller, spaceship-earth, comprehe... 2026-06-27
order-in-space.md Keith Critchlow's visual and geometric introduction to spatial order, with Fuller as an explicit ins... fuller-adjacent, geometry, close-packing, pol... 2026-06-27
pilot-for-spaceship-earth.md A narrative biography of R. Buckminster Fuller by Athena V. Lord, written for young readers, tracing... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, bear-isl... 2026-06-27
r-buckminster-fuller-world-man.md A Princeton Architectural Press volume built around the typescript of R. Buckminster Fuller's extemp... buckminster-fuller, architecture, lecture, ge... 2026-06-27
regular-polytopes.md H. S. M. Coxeter's classic treatise Regular Polytopes (Dover 1973 edition; first published 1948), a... fuller-adjacent, polytopes, geometry, polyhed... 2026-06-27
student-publication-school-of-design-index.md The cumulative author-and-subject index to the Student Publication of the School of Design, North Ca... fuller-adjacent, bibliography, design-index... 2026-06-28
sunspots.md Sunspots: Collected Facts and Solar Fiction (1975) is a solar-energy and appropriate-technology prim... fuller-adjacent, sun, solar-system, seasons... 2026-06-27
synergetics-a-new-hope.md A contemporary book-length re-presentation of Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics, framing fragmented e... about-buckminster-fuller, synergetics, specia... 2026-06-27
synergetics.md R. Buckminster Fuller's two-volume magnum opus (with E. J. Applewhite) presenting an experientially... buckminster-fuller, synergetics, geometry, qu... 2026-06-27
test-book.md A demonstration/test book in the Buckyverse toolchain that validates the LaTeX-to-digital conversion... fuller-adjacent, test-artifact, conversion-pi... 2026-06-27
tetrascroll.md Fuller's 'cosmic fairy tale' retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a vehicle for synergetics a... buckminster-fuller, geometry, cosmology, gold... 2026-06-27
the-buckminster-fuller-reader.md James Meller's curated Fuller sampler — chronology, autobiography, and selected essays arranged to s... about-buckminster-fuller, anthology, autobiog... 2026-06-27
the-comprehensive-man.md A Fuller essay arguing that architecture should train comprehensive integrators rather than draftsme... buckminster-fuller, comprehensive-design, des... 2026-06-27
the-design-way.md Nelson and Stolterman's argument that design is a distinct culture of inquiry and action — a 'first... fuller-adjacent, design, design-science, cult... 2026-06-27
the-dome-builders-handbook.md A 1973 do-it-yourself dome-building book by John Prenis, part of the counterculture design-publishin... geodesic-dome, diy, counterculture, running-p... 2026-07-02
the-dymaxion-world-of-buckminster-fuller.md Robert Marks's classic survey of Fuller's life and work, tracing the line from the 4D house through... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, dymaxion... 2026-06-27
the-experimenters.md Eva Diaz's study uses Black Mountain College to compare three rival experimental methods — Albers's... fuller-adjacent, black-mountain-college, expe... 2026-06-27
the-love-song-of-r-buckminster-fuller.md A live documentary by Sam Green about R. Buckminster Fuller, narrated in person with an original sco... documentary, film, sam-green, live-cinema, ab... 2026-07-02
the-man-who-saved-geometry.md Siobhan Roberts's biography of geometer H. S. M. (Donald) Coxeter, the twentieth century's foremost... fuller-adjacent, biography, geometry, coxeter... 2026-06-27
the-minds-eye.md Donald W. Robertson's 1974 study of how Buckminster Fuller's mind worked, told through the patented... about-buckminster-fuller, comprehensive-desig... 2026-06-27
the-sense-of-significance.md A 2022 book from the Estate of Buckminster Fuller chronicling Fuller's decades-long friendship with... book, christopher-morley, friendship, estate-... 2026-07-02
tools-for-changing-the-world.md A design-science workbook built directly on Fuller's insights, organized around his framing of the r... fuller-adjacent, design-science, anticipatory... 2026-06-27
total-thinking.md A short Fuller essay written at Black Mountain College in 1949 and republished in Ideas and Integrit... buckminster-fuller, epistemology, black-mount... 2026-06-27
untitled-epic-poem.md R. Buckminster Fuller's book-length free-verse poem (Simon & Schuster, 1962) reading the history of... buckminster-fuller, poetry, industrialization... 2026-06-27
utopia-or-oblivion.md Fuller's clearest statement of the planetary choice: use design science to make the world work for 1... buckminster-fuller, design-science, spaceship... 2026-06-27
we-are-all-astronauts.md An exhibition catalog, We Are All Astronauts: The Universe of Richard Buckminster Fuller as Reflecte... about-buckminster-fuller, buckminster-fuller-... 2026-06-27
what-i-have-learned.md Fuller's contribution to the 'What I Have Learned' anthology series, written partly in verse and ref... buckminster-fuller, autobiography, self-disci... 2026-06-27
what-quality-of-environment-do-we-want.md Fuller's 1967 address to the AMA's Fourth Congress on Environmental Health Problems, arguing that pe... buckminster-fuller, environment, perception... 2026-06-27
wholeness.md Alex Gerber uses Fuller to argue for holistic education in a fragmented world, connecting Fuller's c... fuller-adjacent, holistic-education, comprehe... 2026-06-27
wizard-of-the-dome.md Sidney Rosen's 1969 narrative biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, written for younger readers, traci... about-buckminster-fuller, biography, geodesic... 2026-06-27
world-design-science-decade-document-1.md The opening document (1963) of Fuller & McHale's World Design Science Decade — a data-driven invento... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-06-28
world-design-science-decade-document-2.md Document 2 (1963) of Fuller & McHale's World Design Science Decade, built around Fuller's 'World Des... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-07-05
world-design-science-decade-document-3.md Document 3 (1965) of the World Design Science Decade, by R. Buckminster Fuller (selected and edited... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-07-05
world-design-science-decade-document-4.md Document 4 (1965) of the World Design Science Decade, by John McHale — the only Phase I document aut... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-07-05
world-design-science-decade-document-5.md Document 5 (1967) of the World Design Science Decade — the first of Phase II — by R. Buckminster Ful... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-07-05
world-design-science-decade-document-6.md Document 6 (1967) of the World Design Science Decade — the sixth and final document — by John McHale... buckminster-fuller, world-design-science-deca... 2026-07-05
zome-primer.md Steve Baer's 1970 technical booklet explaining the geometry and mathematics of zonohedra and their u... fuller-adjacent, zome, zonohedra, geodesic-do... 2026-06-27

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