Buckminister Fuller: Inventor of the Future
Just finished this book. Fascinating account of this most brilliant man. He hobnobbed with some most forward-thinking people of his generation, including: Albert Einstein — Fuller met Einstein in the 1930s and discussed Fuller's ideas with him. Fuller was deeply influenced by relativity and devoted substantial attention to Einstein's thinking. Isamu Noguchi — Probably one of Fuller's closest and most enduring friendships. They met in Greenwich Village around 1929 and collaborated on projects including the Dymaxion car. Noguchi was fascinated by Fuller's ideas about technology, materials and light. Marshall McLuhan — The Canadian communications theorist and author of Understanding Media. McLuhan became an enthusiastic admirer of Fuller; they met in the early 1960s and corresponded. McLuhan famously regarded Fuller as a kind of modern Leonardo da Vinci. John Cage — The radically experimental composer. Cage and Fuller were colleagues at Black Mountain College, an extraor...
