Euphoria of Scale,Euphoria of Meta Thinking
Richard Buckminster Fuller’s Multiple Science & Design Paradigms
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engineers scientists
designers
External knowledge
Internal knowledge
Transform world
Understand world
Machines
Users
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Richard Buckminster Fulleranticipatory design scientist
1895-1983
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anticipatory design science
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Fuller’s Formative Years: the 1920s
(Vertical Central Axis Structures & the 4D Principle)
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“In architecture form is a noun;in industry form is a verb.”
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The 4D principle
(e=mc2)
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26% of earth’s surface is dry land.
85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.
86% of all dry land shown is above equator.
The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.
All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.
“United we stand, divided we fall”
is correct mentally and spiritually but
falacious physically or materially.
2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80 years.
Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928
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We are concernedwith mooring first class habitation
to the earth’s surface.
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“Ferro-concrete architecture may be likenedunto the plastic cocoon of the archaic wormfrom which will emerge the 4D butterfly.”
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dimaxiondynamism maximum ions
“it just emerged”
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Norman Bel GeddesPatent model car no.9, 1934
Richard Buckminster Fuller4D Car > Dymaxion Car, 1933
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Dymaxion Car no.1, july 1933
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1933
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Wichita Dwelling Machine
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Fuller’s Prototypical Years: the 1940s
(Discoveries and/or Inventions)
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500.000 BC - 1850
(against forces)
1850-1950
(transitional)
1950 >>
(natural)
Man on Earth: transport species
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500.000 BC - 1850
(against forces)
1850-1950
(transitional)
1950 >>
(natural)
Man on Earth: transport species
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Dymaxion World Map
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Dymaxion World Map
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Erich Haeckel - Radiolarien
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“In December of 1950 the prototype of a specializedgeodesic structure was built in Montreal. When the
structure was completed we looked up at the blue skythrough this thing and began to realize that somethingvery pleasantly exiting was happening to us. We knewthat it was light, knew that it was strong, but we did
not know that it was going to do just that to a blue sky.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Fuller’s ‘Landed’ Years: the 1950s and 1960sThe Geodesic Domes
(Blessings of the Cold War)
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Fuller’s Late Years: the 1960s and 1970s“Eminence Grise”
(Usurping the Legacy, Enhancing the Legacy)
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Nicolas Grimshaw - Eden project, Cornwall UK
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“Reshape the Environment;don’t try to reshape Man.”
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