American dreamer : Bucky Fuller & the sacred geometry of nature / Scott Eastham.

Main entry:

Eastham, Scott, 1949-2013.

Title & Author:

American dreamer : Bucky Fuller & the sacred geometry of nature / Scott Eastham.

Publication:

Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2007.

Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and index.
Introduction: an imaginary symposium -- I. Archaeology of a vision -- II. Refractions -- III. Reflections -- App. A. Unfolding WHOLES: a synergetics primer -- App. B. The root DHR and its branches -- App. C. Palimpsest.

Summary:

A sympathetic and insightful study of the legacy of pioneering environmental designer R. Buckminster Fuller, with particular emphasis on his synergetic approach to geometry. Buckminster Fuller defined 'synergetics' as "the exploratory strategy of starting with the whole". It was in the 1940s that Fuller developed a series of spherical models which embody and illustrate the principles of his synergetic geonometry. This study of Fuller's life, works, and geometrical principles describes in vigorous detail how these spherical figures reveal themselves in both natural structures - molecules, flowers, crystals, etc. - and cultural forms, especially in religious art and sacred architecture. Fuller's 'omnitriangulated' geometry offers a key to structures of meaning and value in more than one symbolic world
The author first assesses the legacy of Fuller, scientist-artist-engineer extraordinaire, by examining how he drew his inspiration from an alternative American dream, a way of life based on cooperation rather than competition. The book then offers an enthusiastic and sympathetic portrayal of the creative science of a man whose character was as multifaceted as the geodosic domes he built. Discover why the straight lines and boxes of conventional science and maths are inadequate to model Nature's spherical and cylindrical patterns of growth ... Explore the many startling ways in which Bucky's synergetic figures appear in ancient iconographies of the world's greatest religious traditions ... Open up future artistic applications of Fuller's 'whole systems' by learning to think 'outside the box.' (Publisher).

ISBN:

9780718830311
0718830318

Subject:

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Geometry in nature.
Geometry Philosophy.
Géométrie dans la nature.
Géométrie Philosophie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253916
Call No.: BIB 183731
Status: Available

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