R. Buckminster Fuller : pattern thinking
Publication details: Lars Muller Publishers Zurich 2021Description: 367,ipISBN:- 9783037786093
- 745.016 LOP
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Technology | 745.016 LOP | Available | 025518 |
Contents
PREFACE 7
PATTERN-THINKING IN FOUR SCENES
I. LINES 36
Cartographic and Euclidean Challenges 42
Energetic-Synergetic Geometry of RBF 45
Spherical Atlas 52
Pattern Recognition: Naturalism and Organicism 56
II. MODELS 111
Pattern-Making: Translating Lines into Models 114
Programming 118
Earth as a Model 122
World Design Science Decade 125
A Legacy of Design-Build Manuals 130
III. WORDS 206
Synergetics 208
Synergetics Dictionary 213
Dictionary Writing 218
Dictionary Entries 219
Writing: Collective Sensing and Inventorying 226
IV. PATENTS 258
Inventions: Lines, Artifacts, Definitions, and Patents 259
Patents: Comprehensiveness in Words and Drawings 262
Patent Variations: Past, Present, and Pending 273
Patent Writing: Architecture and Design 277
POSTSCRIPT 334
RBF'S LETIER TO "DEAN X"
APPENDIX 359
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