Credits and Copyrights

1Buckminster Fuller repeated his major concepts, themes, anecdotes, and examples—with minor differences (and occasional inconsistencies)—throughout his lectures and writings. This book is an introduction, not an academic treatise. I have made no attempt to footnote paraphrases, quotes and concepts, but I have taken care to identify what is certainly his. I accept responsibility for any errors in my story. They are inadvertent.

2 Most of the photographs in this book are copyrighted by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, or Allegra Fuller Snyder (as indicated below), and are used courtesy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Photographers are identified where possible, but many photographs in the Fuller Archive are unmarked and unattributed. When action was afoot, Bucky was usually armed with a camera or two. Some of the uncredited shots are doubtless by him, but there is no way to be sure.

3 Direct quotes and excerpts from books by Buckminster Fuller are used by permission. The words Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth, and the design of the Fuller Projection map are registered trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

4 The account, Learning a Lot, Learning Fast (Page 142), is used with the kind permission of Amy C. Edmondson.

5 Figs. 0-1, 1-1, 2-4, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23, 2-24, 2-25, 2-26, ’1-TJ, 2-28, 2-29, 2-30, 2-31, 2-32, 2-34, 2-35, 2-37, 2-42, 3-1, 4-4, 4-5, 4-8, 4-9,

4.: 10,4-12, 4-13, 4-14, 4-15, 4-16, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3,
5.: 5, 5-6, 5-7, 5-10, 5-11, 6-2, 6-3, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9,
6.: 12,7-3, 7-5, 7-6, 7-8, 7-9, 8-4, 8-7, 8-9, 8-11, 8-12, 8-13, 8-14, 8-15, 8-16, 8-17, 8-18, 8-19, 8-20, 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 10-8, 11-1 © 1996; Figs. 2-5, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10,2-11, 2-36, 2-43, 4-2, 4-6, 4-7, 4-17,4-21, 5-8, 5-9, 5-12, 7-1, 7-2, 8-3, 8-6, 8-8, 8-10, 9-4, 9-5 © 1960, 1988; Figs. 2-1, 2-3, 4-3, 4-18,4-19, 4-20 © 1985; Fig. 10-9 ©1981;

8 Courtesy The Buckminster Fuller Institute.

9 Figs. 1-2, 2-38, 4-11, 4-24, 6-4, 6-5, 6-6, 6-10, 6-11, 7-4, 8-1, 8-2, 8-5, 10-5, Courtesy, The Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.

10 Credits for photographs and drawings. (All others are unknown.)

11 Fig. 0-1 —Anne Hewlett Fuller

12 Fig. 0-2 —Phil Haggerty

13 Fig. 1-1 —Robert Snyder

14 Fig. 2-1 —R. Buckminster Fuller

15 Fig. 2-5 —F. S. Lincoln

16 Figs. 2-6, 2-7 —Malcolm Wells

17 Fig. 2-14 —Ernest Weissman

18 Figs. 2-12, 2-16 —Butler Manufacturing Company

19 Fig. 2-17 —J. Baldwin

20 Figs. 2-18, 2-19 —Michael Jantzen

21 Figs. 2-39, 2-40, 2-41 —J. Baldwin

22 Figs. 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 3-9 —Maroon Tabbal

23 Figs. 3-7, 3-8 —Liz Fial

24 Fig. 3-10 —Laura Wulf, courtesy Donald Ingber, M. D.

25 Fig. 4-17 —Kaufmann & Fabry

26 Fig. 4-22 —Robert Cumberford

28 Fig. 4-24 —John Loengard

29 Figs. 4-25, 4-26 —Platt Monfort

30 Fig. 5-1 —Charles Eames

31 Fig. 5-4 —Winslow Colwell

32 Figs. 6-4, 6-5, 6-6 —Ralph Mills

33 Figs. 6-9, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12 —Kenneth Oberg

34 Fig. 7-4 —Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph

35 Fig. 7-10 —Courtesy of The North Face

36 Fig. 7-11 —Alec Harrison

37 Fig. 8-5 —A. R. Sinsabaugh

38 Figs. 8-8, 8-10 —drawings by John Rauma

39 Figs. 8-11, 8-12 —Martin Growald

40 Fig. 8-14 —Don Richter

41 Fig. 8-21 —Jean-Francois Cloutier, La Biosphere

42 Figs. 8-22, 8-23, 8-24, 8-25 —J. Baldwin

48 Fig. 10-5 —Roger Stoller

49 Figs. 10-6, 10-7 —J. Baldwin

50 Fig. 10-10 —John Kuhtik

52 Fig. 11-1 —Charles Eames