Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio

ISBN-13: 9783037784280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str.

Mark Wigley

Opis

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.

O autorze

MARK WIGLEY ist Professor und Dean Emeritus an der Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation der Columbia University in New York. Er ist der Autor von "The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt", "White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture" und "Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire", sowie Mitherausgeber von "The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond" und Mitbegründer der Zeitschrift Volume. Er hat Ausstellungen im MoMA, New York, im Witte de With, Rotterdam, im The Drawing Center, New York und im CCA, Montreal kuratiert.