Buckminster Fuller Signs His Essay The Architect As World Planner

BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895-1983). Fuller was an American architect and designer. He created the geodesic dome and wrote numerous books. TMS. 7pg. 8 x 11. No date. No place. A typed manuscript signed Buckminster Fuller at the conclusion. The essay is entitled The Architect As World Planner and it first appeared in Architectural Design in 1961. Fuller begins his essay with I have had the good fortune to be invited to more than one hundred universities and colleges around the earth. I have, therefore, a certain experience which may be of value in respect to subjects which are apparently of inspiration to architectural students. I am convinced that they have a greater interest in comprehensive world patterns than had my generation, for instance. I am sure it is my study of world-patterning which has gained for me student interest and support. The essence of world problems, as I see it, is as follows. The final page has light mailing folds, and the other pages do not.