Ideas and Integrities

Ideas and Integrities

A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

R. Buckminster Fuller & Robert W. Marks

Collier-Macmillan | New York

ISBN: 9783037781982

ISBN-10: 303778198X

Updated: 2024-12-16 12:432024-12-16

©Richard Buckminster Fuller 1963

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63--11571

ISBN 0-02-092630-8

FIRST COLLIER BOOKS EDITION 1969

SEVENTH PRINTING 1979

Ideas and Integrities was originally published in a hardcover edition by Prentice-Hall, Inc. and is reprinted by arrangement.

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Contents

Foreword

Foreword

1 Influences on My Work

2 Later Development of My Work

3 Margaret Fuller’s Prophecy

4 The Comprehensive Man

5 I Figure

6 Fluid Geography

7 The Cumulative Nature of Wealth

8 Domes---Their Long History and Recent Developments

9 Comprehensive Designing

10 Design for Survival---Plus

11 Preview of Building

12 Total Thinking

13 Prime Design

14 The Architect as World Planner

15 World Planning

16 The Long Distance Trending in Pre-Assembly

17 The Future

18 Continuous Man

19 The Designers and the Politicians

Appendix

Appendix

List of Figures

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Tables

Index

Index

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword

Influences on My Work

Later Development of My Work

Margaret Fuller’s Prophecy

The Comprehensive Man

I Figure

Fluid Geography

The Cumulative Nature of Wealth

Domes---Their Long History and Recent Developments

Comprehensive Designing

Design for Survival---Plus

Preview of Building

Total Thinking

Prime Design

The Architect as World Planner

World Planning

The Long Distance Trending in Pre-Assembly

The Future

Continuous Man

The Designers and the Politicians

Appendix

List of Figures

List of Tables

Index