Fuller Speak

ISBN-13: 9781894508261 / Angielski

Rebecca Dalvesco

Opis

During the 1930s the American designer Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) created three prototypes of a streamline vehicle design known as the Dymaxion. These vehicle designs function as readable texts comprised of signs that can be interpreted. In order to gain an understanding of how these vehicle designs act as cultural signs that convey meaning, we must also examine Fuller's writings from the same period. His writings have always seemed idiosyncratic, somewhat hermetic, and unnecessarily complex. The semiotic theory created by the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce holds the potential of arriving at a new understanding ol this "Fuller-speak." She teaches at Arizona State University.