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Title:

BUCKY INC
ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF RADIO

By:

Mark Wigley

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3037784288

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9783037784280

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Publisher:

LARS MULLER PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

29 October, 2015

Pages:

320

Description:

Down to the last detail, Buckminster Fuller's buildings were set up to receive electromagnetic signals. In a mostly wireless world, they take on a new and urgent significance.

Synopsis:

Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic spectrum. His buildings were delicate mobile instruments for accessing the invisible universe of overlapping signals. Every detail was understood as a way of tuning into hidden waves. Architecture was built in, with, for and as radio. Bucky Inc. rethinks the legacy of one of the key protagonists of the twentieth-century. It draws extensively on Fuller's archive to follow his radical thinking from toilets to telepathy, plastic to prosthetics, and data to deep-space. It shows how the critical arguments and material techniques of arguably the single most exposed designer of the last century were overlooked at the time but have become urgently relevant today.

Illustrations:

150

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Lars Muller Publishers

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