title: BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today
author:  J. Baldwin 
description: A useful, informal introduction to visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller's ideas, discoveries and inventions, this survey is illustrated with some 200 photographs, drawings and plans that help demonstrate how Fuller nurtured concepts from paper napkin to finished gizmo. Baldwin, an editor of Whole Earth Catalog and Whole Earth Review, is an inventor who worked closely with Fuller (1895-1983) and who has designed and built experimental domes. Along with Fuller inventions and blueprints such as the aluminum, aerodynamically modeled Dymaxion car, the geodesic dome, "Lightful House" 12-deck residential towers and energy-efficient corrugated cottages with silo tops, Baldwin explains synergetics, Fuller's system purporting to describe the coordinates and energy flow of the universe. He also discusses the World Game Institute, founded by Fuller in 1972, which conducts workshops demonstrating how a small fraction of the world's military expenditures could be redeployed to eliminate starvation and malnutrition, stabilize the population and provide clean, safe energy. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  UNTITLED EPIC POEM
  on the history of
  INDUSTRIALIZATION
  R. Buckminster Fuller
  SIMON AND SCHUSTER
  [ NEW YORK
  
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  BUCKY FULLER'S NOTEBOOK
  By Russell Davenport
  An architect
  is a man who works in wood, brick,
  steel,
  and other materials that do not visibly move when they are
  put together. That
  is,
  his medium
  is
  static. Richard Buck-
  minster Fuller has practiced architecture in this conventional
  sense, but it is not what he really means when he talks about
  "architecture." His
  field,
  as he himself described
  it,
  is the
  architecture of things in motion. Bucky's structures, or con-
  cepts, are built of motion — the motion of